President Bola Tinubu has declined assent to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management of Nigeria (Amendment) Bill, 2026 and the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (Amendment) Bill, 2026, citing constitutional, legal and drafting concerns.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio read the president’s
letters during Thursday’s plenary.
In his letter on the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and
Supply Management of Nigeria (Amendment) Bill, Tinubu noted that while many of
the proposed amendments are commendable, some provisions seek to confer
regulatory powers on the institute beyond its statutory mandate.
He said the bill contains clauses requiring organisations to
report procurement appointments to the institute, imposing penalties on
employers who appoint non-members to head procurement units, compelling
organisations to notify the institute of staff removals, empowering the
institute to initiate legal proceedings against non-members, and authorising
inspection visits to companies.
President said the provisions amount to unreasonable
restrictions.
Tinubu said the institute is not the statutory regulator of
procurement practice in Nigeria and therefore lacks the authority to impose
such obligations on independent organisations.
He advised the senate to review the identified provisions
and retransmit the bill for assent.
After reading the letter, the senate president referred the
bill to the committee on rules and business.
“The reasons given for the decline are here for the
committee on rules and business to rework on. So, this should be done and
returned to the senate within two weeks,” he said.
On the Raw Materials Research and Development Council
(Amendment) Bill, 2026, the president said the proposed legislation failed to
adequately reflect its principal objectives in its long title and contained
drafting defects that should be corrected before it could receive presidential
assent.
“The reasons are all here, clause by clause, so subject to
the correction of the above issues, the bill may be suitable for retransmission
and assent,” the letter reads.
Akpabio subsequently referred the bill to the senate
committee on rules and business and directed the committee to report back to
the chamber within four weeks.
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