Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress has said the present democratic system of government currently practised in Nigeria is too expensive for the nation.Information Guide Nigeria
Omoyele said this when he was interviewed at ‘The Roundtable’ organised by PUNCH Newspapers on Wednesday. The Punch reports.
In his words: “It is my legislative agenda and transformation agenda to cut down the cost of business and that the Nigeria Senate or the House of Representatives (will be scrapped); we do not need a bicameral legislative system because it is too expensive.NYSC portal
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“And as I was dropping that joint, our President, Muhammadu Buhari, claimed that our legislators added some trillions, I’m not sure about the exact figure, but they padded the budget.JAMB portal
“I then said to myself and according to advice from other people that have listened to this brilliant idea, maybe not the Senate should be cut off but the House of Reps. We should be able to do ok with just the Senate, with 107 members. They can adequately represent the constituencies in Nigeria and check the government.
“Otherwise, we are just going to go bankrupt one day because we have the irresponsible overhead that we don’t need.”JAMB Result
