Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo’s former vice chancellor, Reverend Dapo Asaju, has once more pushed for a five-year term limit for the presidency and state governorships.
He believed that the second-term syndrome would be resolved once the five-year tenure was implemented at both the federal and state levels of government.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Asaju stated, “The tenure of the President of Nigeria, as well as the Governors of States, should be a single term of five years non-renewable.” This was mentioned during the University of Lagos’ (UNILAG) 10th memorial anniversary lecture of Bishop Kola Onaolapo. The second-term syndrome is now over.
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“The position should be rotated among the various former regions of North, West, East, Middle Belt; and we may add, the Niger Delta and Middle Belt.”
While speaking about the lecture’s topic, the topic “transforming the Nigerian politics, perspectives and insights,” he said that “on no condition should the President and Vice-President or Governor and Deputy Governor come from the same tribe or religion.
“The extant practice of federal character should be maintained. No president should be allowed to fill all vital positions with appointees from his tribe and religion in exclusion of others and flagrant disregard of the federal character.”
For his part, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, the main pastor of the Trinity House Church in Lagos, emphasized that the #EndSARS demonstration was an excellent chance for Nigerian leaders to engage with the youth and offer responses to their demands for redirection and restructuring.
Ighodalo claimed that instead, they squandered the chance and viewed the protest as an attack on them.
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