President-elect may resume in Villa before inauguration – TheNigerialawyer

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill seeking to
make a President-elect resume in the Presidential Villa to
understudy the outgoing President ahead of inauguration.

Presidential election is held not less than 90 days to the
expiration of the outgoing administration, according to the
law.

The bill proposes that during the waiting period, the incoming
president would be empowered to review the financial records and
activities of the incumbent.

Refusal by the incumbent to cooperate with or provide requested
documents by the incoming officials shall upon conviction attract a
fine of N10m or six months’ imprisonment or both.

These are some of the proposals in the Presidential (Transition)
Bill, 2016, which the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, sponsored in the
Eighth National Assembly and reintroduced in July 2019, which the
House has passed for third reading.

The bill, ‘A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Smooth and
Orderly Transfer of Power from One Government to Another and Other
Related Matters Thereto,’ read in part, “When at any general
election for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, the incumbent President is not re-elected, the President
shall within two weeks of the declaration of the President-elect as
the winner of the election provide space for not more than 10
persons designated by the President-elect to begin a review and
analysis of budgeted expenditures during the tenor of the current
president, review all other necessary documents as may be requested
by the President-elect’s transition team.”