Peter Obi advocates five-year single tenure for president

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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party during the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has advocated a five-year single term for the President in Nigeria.

Obi stated this in Bauchi on Friday when he paid a courtesy visit to Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State.

According to him, there shouldn’t be any second tenure for the president, adding that instead of the four-year tenure, it should be five years, as is practised in South Korea.

“I’ve said it and I want to say it again in this Government House that if I have the opportunity, we should stop having a second tenure for president.

“It should be five years straight, so that people can come in knowingly they have a job to do.

“What people do now is to be president for one year and use the rest of the years thinking about their next tenure. We must stop it, let’s face the real job, do your own and go,” he suggested.

The 2027 presidential hopeful insisted that if elected as president in 2027, he would only serve for one term, promising that he wouldn’t spend a day longer than four years in office.

He added that if given the opportunity to serve Nigeria, he would ensure that every political party functions properly.

Obi said he would ensure that political parties are bigger than the elected officials.

“I want the party to be bigger than the president and the governors so that we can have orderliness,” he said.

Responding, the Bauchi state governor called on Obi to come back to the Peoples Democratic Party, saying that’s where he belongs.

“We want you to come back to the PDP. Please come back because that is where you belong.