Section 2: Directions to Independent National Electoral Commission

(1)
The National Assembly shall, where it is satisfied that a request so received has complied with section 8 (1) (a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, direct the Independent National Electoral Commission by resolution to conduct a referendum of the area (where the demand for the creation of the new State originated) with respect to the said proposal.
[Cap. C23.]
(2) The proposal shall, within thirty days after it has been accepted by resolution of both Houses of the National Assembly, be published in the Gazette.
(3)
The Clerk to the National Assembly shall communicate the directives of the National Assembly within thirty days to the Independent National Electoral Commission as prescribed in Form I and the manner prescribed in the Schedule to this Act.
[Form 1. Schedule.]