This new law isn't just applicable to the Vice President alone but also to all deputy governors who must have completed the same tenure with the governor.
Disclosing this was the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters ( Senate ) , Ita Enang , to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa , Abuja on Friday.
He further said that the term of a President or a governor can be aborted by virtue of death, resignation or removal , thereby paving the way for the Vice President or deputy governor to take over.
“I just want to inform you that His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari today ( Friday ) assented to the Constitution Fourth Alteration Bill which grants financial autonomy and independence to the Houses of Assembly of the respective states and to the Judiciary of the respective states .
“Therefore , upon this signature , the amounts standing to the credit of the judiciary are to now be paid directly to the judiciary of those states and no more through the governors and from the governors .
“And then the amounts standing to the credit of the Houses of Assembly of the respective states are now to be paid directly to the Houses of Assembly of that state for the benefit of the legislators and the management of the............
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