Eight House bills share the name of the state police amendment now before the states. The public record does not say which one was sent

On 16 September 2026 the Clerk to the National Assembly, Kamoru Ogunlana, sent the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026 to the Houses of Assembly of the 36 states, according to reports by ThisDay, Channels Television and The Will. Section 9 of the Constitution requires resolutions from at least two-thirds of those assemblies, 24 of 36, before the alteration can proceed. Its central measure creates state police services.

The House of Representatives' own Order Papers for 2026, published on nass.gov.ng, list eight separate private members' bills for first reading between 22 April and 9 July 2026. Each has essentially the same short title, Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026: HB.2735 (Hon. Oluwole Oke, 22 April); HB.2671 (Hon. Danlandi Suleiman Aguye), HB.2750 (Hon. Paul Ekpo) and HB.2757 (Hon. Muhammed Buba Jajere), all on 28 April; HB.2758 (Hon. Obinna Aguocha, 29 April); HB.2778 (Hon. Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, 10 June), which omits the '1999'; HB.2786 (Hon. Abdullahi Mamudu, 8 July); and HB.2793 (Hon. Ademorin Kuye, 9 July). The Order Papers do not say whether any of them went past first reading.

The state police bill that the House voted on appears in those same Order Papers under a different title and number. On Tuesday 21 July 2026 the Committee on Constitution Review, through Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, was listed to lay its report on 'a Bill for An Act to Alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to provide for the Establishment of State Police Services and for Related Matters (HB. 2797)', with the note '(Referred: 14/7/2026)'. The Order Paper for Thursday 23 July 2026 lists, as item 26, the motion that the House 'do consider the Report of the Committee on Constitution Review' on HB. 2797 'and approve recommendations therein' (Laid: 21/7/2026). That page shows the item was scheduled. It does not show how the House voted.

Going by the dates on those Order Papers, the bill was referred on 14 July, the committee report was laid on 21 July and the bill was listed for consideration on 23 July, nine days from referral to the vote that sent it on to the states. That interval is our reading of the Order Paper dates. No document states it.

The two chambers announced their votes in public. The Senate passed its version on 24 June 2026 after it dropped electronic voting because some devices were faulty and called senators one by one. Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele later said 84 senators had voted for it, and Leadership reported that each of the 26 provisions drew not less than 80 affirmative votes. In the House on 23 July 2026, Speaker Abbas Tajudeen announced 311 votes in favour, 276 cast in person and 35 cast virtually, against a constitutional threshold of 240. Vanguard reported that the minority caucus walked out, arguing that the provisions had not been voted on clause by clause by a two-thirds majority, as Section 9(2) and House Standing Order 13 Rule 15(a) require. These figures come from press reports of what was announced in the chambers. Vero Record has not seen them in any official record.

The official record of a chamber's decisions on a given day is its Votes and Proceedings. On 7 September Vero Record reported that the nass.gov.ng archive held none from the current 10th Assembly, which was inaugurated in June 2023. We checked the same data endpoint (documents/votes_track) again on 29 September. Nothing has changed. The index still reports 2,657 records. The newest Senate entries are 'SENATE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS NO. 36' and 'NO. 37', both dated 22 December 2021, and the newest House entry is 'HOUSE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS NO 81', dated 18 March 2020. Searches of the index for '2025' and '2026' returned zero records. The site therefore holds no official account of the Senate division of 24 June or the House division of 23 July. Its Order Paper index lists 17 Order Papers dated in 2026, all from the House, running from 31 March to 23 July. Vero Record downloaded and read all 17. The index has no 2026 Order Paper for the Senate.

Our check was limited to nass.gov.ng. We did not establish whether either chamber has published these records in print or anywhere else, and a missing upload does not mean the record was never made. Vanguard's report says the House adopted its Votes and Proceedings as part of that day's business.

The published reports of the transmission describe a single document called the Sixth Alteration Bill, 2026. None of the public sources we opened shows whether it is HB. 2797, one of the eight private bills, a combination of them, or which clauses it contains. Without the Votes and Proceedings, the website offers no way to compare the provisions the states are being asked to approve with the provisions each chamber actually voted on.

This matters now because of how Section 9 works. The state assemblies vote on the text the National Assembly sends them. The minority caucus's objection in the House concerned exactly this point: whether each clause received a two-thirds vote. A clause-by-clause division would be written down in the chamber's daily record. According to The Will's report of the Clerk's letter, he said the 30-day window he gave the states 'is an expected administrative timeframe and does not constitute a constitutional deadline'.

Vero Record makes no claim that any vote was improperly conducted or improperly counted. No court has considered that question. The documents show something narrower. The announced tallies of 84 senators and 311 members appear only in press reports. The National Assembly's public website, the official place to publish its proceedings, has uploaded no Votes and Proceedings for either chamber since December 2021, and its only 2026 floor documents are House agendas that end on the day of the vote.

On 29 September the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine reported no capture of the nass.gov.ng Votes and Proceedings page, so we could not compare earlier versions of it. The live index, the 17 Order Papers and the dated query results are saved in our evidence folder. The Clerk to the National Assembly, the Senate and the House can publish the Votes and Proceedings for 24 June and 23 July 2026 and the enrolled text of the bill transmitted on 16 September. We will add them to this record when they are available.

What this rests on

Grade A: the nass.gov.ng document index (votes_track and order_paper_track endpoints), queried and saved on 29 September 2026, and the 17 House Order Papers for 2026, downloaded from nass.gov.ng and read in full (key pages rendered: 28 April p1, 23 July p5). Grade B: vote tallies, the transmission date, the Clerk's quote and the minority walkout, all from press reports (ThisDay, The Will, Leadership, Vanguard). Grade C, labelled as such in the text: the nine-day interval between referral and vote, and the question of which numbered bill was transmitted. This follows up Vero Record's 7 September report on the missing Votes and Proceedings.

What this does not establish

Whether the Votes and Proceedings for 24 June and 23 July 2026 exist in print or on another official channel. What the transmitted Sixth Alteration Bill contains, and whether it is HB. 2797, one of the eight private bills or a combination. The official division figures. Whether any of the eight private Sixth Alteration bills went past first reading. Earlier versions of the Votes and Proceedings page, since the Wayback Machine held no capture.