Single tenure: Jonathan, govs may forfeit second term
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Review of the Constitution, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has said if the committee’s recommendation on single tenure succeeds, President Goodluck Jonathan will sacrifice his presidential ambition in 2015.
Ekweremadu, who is the Deputy Senate President, also said some governors would sacrifice their second term ambitions in 2015.
He stated this in Abuja on Thursday while explaining the fate of the President and some governors on the proposed six-year single tenure amendment to the 1999 Constitution.
The deputy senate President said, “For us, it would have been easy to say let’s put it six years and let whoever wants, including those who are available now, let them benefit, so long as it will help in keeping overheating the system away.
“But we don’t want Nigerians to say that we have colluded with the executive to give tenure elongation to the President and certain governors. That means somebody instead of staying for eight years; he will now be staying for 10 years.
“I think it will be easier for someone to deal with the issue of making a sacrifice than for someone to have the period for 10 years; I am not sure what our colleagues will say. If they say that those who are there now should benefit, that is fine. Those who are currently serving should be able to excuse themselves and say we make this sacrifice on behalf of the system.”
June 12 Is Dead, Only Riffraffs Still Talk About It – Bashir Tofa
In what might not go down well with pro-June 12 agitators and supporters of late business mogul – Chief MKO Abiola, his rival in the critically acclaimed free and fair elections of 1993Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, has described the events of that date as, saying those still celebrating “the dead issue are riffraff who have nothing to with their time.”
Addressing reporters in Kano, yesterday, the former Presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican convention, NRC, who was apparently piqued by the qustion on why he hardly comments about June 12 considered by many as a pan-Nigerian mandate, said… “it is for those who don’t have anything to offer this country to move forward can still be talking about June 12 presidential election”.
The interview took place at his multi million naira Ruqqayya House office located at Hotoro GRA by Maiduguri road.
The June 12 election, widely presumed to have been won by MKO Abiola on the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), was annuled to the dismay of many by former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida.
But Tofa, who still hasn’t gotten over his defeat in that election stressed, “I am not one of those people that celebrate fiction, that is the more reason why I don’t like to be talking again on June 12 presidential election,” he said.
Speaking further and without any sign of remorse over his comment on June 12, Tofa declared that “if you have learnt any lesson out of it good, if you have not, keep quiet, let this country make progress, but for one to still be talking about something that occurred 20 years ago is colossal waste of time”.
Addressing reporters in Kano, yesterday, the former Presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican convention, NRC, who was apparently piqued by the qustion on why he hardly comments about June 12 considered by many as a pan-Nigerian mandate, said… “it is for those who don’t have anything to offer this country to move forward can still be talking about June 12 presidential election”.
The interview took place at his multi million naira Ruqqayya House office located at Hotoro GRA by Maiduguri road.
The June 12 election, widely presumed to have been won by MKO Abiola on the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), was annuled to the dismay of many by former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida.
But Tofa, who still hasn’t gotten over his defeat in that election stressed, “I am not one of those people that celebrate fiction, that is the more reason why I don’t like to be talking again on June 12 presidential election,” he said.
Speaking further and without any sign of remorse over his comment on June 12, Tofa declared that “if you have learnt any lesson out of it good, if you have not, keep quiet, let this country make progress, but for one to still be talking about something that occurred 20 years ago is colossal waste of time”.
2015: We can’t survive another civil war in Nigeria –Mark warns politicians
Senate President, David Mark, yesterday warned those preaching for war ahead of the 2015 general elections to realise that no nation survives two civil wars.
He stated this in Abuja during a special plenary session to mark the end of the Second Legislative Session of the 7th Senate.
According to Mark, “Those beating the drums of war should realise that no nation can survive two civil wars in one lifetime.
“These trends must stop, and we must all remember that the nation is greater than the sum total of its parts.”
The Senator accused public office holders of dumping governance in pursuit of their personal interests ahead of the elections, which is still far away.
Mark said, “Elections are two clear years away, yet the collision of vaulting personal ambitions is over-heating the polity and distracting the onerous task of governance.
“Overheating the polity is unnecessary, diversionary, divisive, destructive, unhelpful and unpatriotic.”
And finally
Photo of Governor Fashola Buying Roasted Plantain Boli
Since the governor of Lagos can’t get Boli in Shoprite, he heads to street where he could get.
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