The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has proposed a single five-year term for the President of Nigeria.
This proposal, he noted, was a significant part of his campaign strategy during the electioneering phase. If he had been elected, Obi expressed his intention to seek an amendment to the Nigerian Constitution to effect this change, limiting the President’s tenure to just five years.InformationGuideNigeria
This advocacy came in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to validate the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu.JAMB Result
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Obi addressed several issues during the conference, emphasizing the importance of reconsidering the current presidential term structure for the nation’s progress.NYSC Portal
“On the issue of a single term, we campaigned on the issue of restructuring and reform and that would have included an amendment to make this Constitution be a workable and functional Constitution that would be productive for Nigerians. I included in that would have been the issue of single tenure.JAMB Portal
“I would go for a five-year tenure which would go for thirty years rotational.”
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