A Motion for an Act to modify the provisions of the Constitution to make a solitary tenure of six years for the office of President and State Chief Executives has failed in the Green Chamber.
The bill backed by Honourable Ikenga Ugochinyere tried to perceive the division of Nigeria into the six geopolitical zones, provide for the rotation of the office of president, state Lead Representative and chairmen of a local government councils among the Inherent regions and zones.
The motion likewise tried to make it possible for all political race in the country to be held on a single day.
At the point when the motion which was slated for second reading was put to vote, the majority of the legislators voted against it.
This isn’t the first time the Green chamber will dismiss a bill looking for six-year single term for President and State Lead Representatives.
In 2019, the bill, which was then backed by John Dyegh from Benue State, likewise neglected to progress to the second reading.
Dyegh’s bill had likewise considered a six-year tenure for Members of the National Assembly and States Houses of Assembly.
He contended that the bill was important for members of the National Assembly to gain more insight in six years rather than four.
As indicated by him, re-appointment for the President and State Chief Executives cost multiple times more than the first election and is portrayed by violence. He believes a single term of five years will check the inconsistencies related with re-appointment.
Former VP Atiku Abubakar had likewise proposed a further change of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act 2022 to oblige a six-year single term for a President for each of the six geopolitical zone.
He added that the law should order electronic voting and collation of results, compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to confirm the accreditations of candidates, among other things.
The Chief Executive of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, likewise in June this year, supported the calls for single tenure for elected lawmakers.
“Most times, these discussions about single term could start to seem OK so you fix it, whether you say four years or five years, six years, seven years, single term,” Soludo said.
“Thus, you are not pondering about the next election once you complete the process of getting into this. I face that all day in my state. You need 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.”
