Nigeria, Oct. 12 -- Former Senate President Ken Nnamani has said the upper chamber during his leadership scuttled the third term agenda of Olusegun Obasanjo but failed to amend the 1999 Constitution.

Mr Nnamani, who was Senate President between April 2005 and May 2007, spoke at a media parley in Lagos ahead of the release of his new book.

The book, Standing Strong: Legislative Reforms, Third Term and Other Issues of the 5th Senate, has 14 chapters and 492 pages.

Mr Nnamani said although he was happy that the planned tenure elongation of the then president, Mr Obasanjo, was truncated, the Senate missed an opportunity to amend the constitution.

"In respecting our constitution, we hold it sacred until amended," he said.

"There is need f...