The destination of the presidency will continue to be an issue in
Nigerian politics, prompting here another look at the single-term proposal.
Erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan’s
proposal of a single, six-year tenure for president and governor is not seminal
but significant nevertheless.
The idea of a single-term enjoys informed
opinion and was in fact forcefully presented to the Political Bureau
established by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida in
1986. General Olusegun Obasanjo, one honest critic of the politics of the Second Republic
 |
| *Fmr President Jonathan |
