The Presidential Working Group stated on Thursday it will transmit the National Policing Bill to the National Assembly inside two weeks.
Chief of Staff to the President and Chairman of the Working Group, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, said this on Thursday whereas talking to journalists after the steering committee assembly on the State (*90*) in Abuja.
“The National Policing Bill is kind of prepared for transmission to the National Assembly. We will in all probability have another assembly after this to cross the t’s and dot the i’s and ensure each space is roofed. So, we’re 90% prepared.
“The governors have one or two observations, and we should be ready in about a week or so,” Gbajabiamila stated.
He described the invoice as ‘the most consequential Bill of the administration so far’. He stated it has undergone strenuous workout routines in the previous couple of weeks because the working group’s steering committee started deliberations on August 3.
Also talking on the opportunity of the states dragging their ft on the passage of the Sixth Constitution Alteration Bill (State Police), particularly in opposition to the backdrop of the knowledge that solely about six states had handed the modification out of the 36 states and the FCT, Gbajabiamila affirmed that there was a “national consensus” amongst Nigerians on the necessity for the amendments.
PHOTO 2: From Left: Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Kwara State, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq; Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila; Inspector General of Police, Olatunji Disu; Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State; through the assembly of the Steering Committee of the Presidential Working Group on National Policing Bill on the State (*90*), Abuja on Thursday, fifteenth October, 2026
“I see no reason why anyone will want to have a rethink on it,” he stated.
Participants at right now’s assembly included the Chairman of the Governors’ Forum and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRazak AbdulRahman, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State, Inspector General of Police, Tunji Disu, and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice represented by the Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Mrs Beatrice Jedy-Agba.
Other members of the committee had been Chairman, Policy Advisory Committee, Justice Abdullahi Liman (rtd); Head, Nigeria Police Reform Secretariat, Professor Olu Ogunsakin; Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters ((*90*) of Representatives), Dr Lanre Smart; Senior Special Assistant to the President on Planning and Research who additionally doubles because the Secretary of the Committee, Nnadubem Moghalu; consultant of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association; and AIG Abraham Nabhon Thomas, representing the National Security Adviser, amongst others.
Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President
(Information & Strategy)
October 15, 2026
