Anambra State Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has supported the calls for a single term for elected officeholders...READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
The former Central Bank Governor (CBN) made this known at The Platform Nigeria, a programme by Lagos-based church, Covenant Nation, to mark the 2024 Democracy Day.
He, however, argued against any form of autonomy for local government areas in the country, noting it is against the tenets of true federalism.
The event with the theme, ‘Democracy and the Free Market Economy’ was attended by former Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola; the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah; former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; among others.
Soludo also proposed a single-parliament National Assembly because of the country’s dwindling revenue.
“Sometimes, these conversations about single term might begin to make some sense so that you fix it, whether you say four years or five years, six years, seven years, single term,” Soludo said.
“So, you are not thinking about the next election once you finish getting into this. I face that all day in my state. You want to get into this (project), they say, ‘No, wait, you know you have an election’. And I say, ‘No, let’s get it, if we get there, we get there and if we lose, we lose.”
Recall, that a group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives are championing bills to change the tenure of the president and governors to a single term of six years.
The group is also proposing the rotation of the presidency between the North and the South as well as the creation of a second vice president.
These proposals are part of six constitutional alteration bills introduced by the lawmakers on the floor of the House.
Briefing journalists at the National Assembly Complex on Monday, the lawmakers, who are also called “The Reformers”, said they have introduced the bills on the floor of the House...ĊONTINUE.THE FULL R£ĄÐING.>’.
