Nigeria’s Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele has proposed a single six-year tenure for presidents and governors. The bill to that effect will be tabled before the National Assembly after the 2027 election, he said.
The Senate Leader, representing Ekiti Stare in the Senate disclosed this to journalists while addressing them in his NASS office, Abuja, the nation’s on Tuesday.
According to him, the current system, where the president and governor are allowed to spend maximum two-term of four years each in office prevent them from focusing on governance, as they are distracted by the urge for re-election as soon as they win the election.
The senator said once the election is won, the president and governor immediately start re-strategising for the next election, which made them unable to provide good governance to Nigerians.
Bamidele said the bill, which will be introduced in the 11th Senate will ensure that the holders of the two offices do not go beyond six years in office, calling on Nigerians to support the move when the times come, because the issue is likely to generate mixed reactions.
He said: One of the first set of bills that I look forward to moving, by God’s grace, when we come back for the 11th Senate, God willing, is for a bill that will only make it possible for anyone who wants to be president of this country, or governor in any part of this country, to spend only one term of six years.
“So that you don’t even have to worry about wasting almost one and a half years of your first term thinking and struggling and looking forward to how you’ll be re-elected.
“If you know you are there for six years, only one tenure, you put in your best from day one. You know this is the only chance that you have.”
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