Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has said the 11th Senate will consider a proposal for a single six-year term for the President and state governors.
Bamidele made this known on Tuesday during plenary in the Senate, explaining that the idea is aimed at improving governance by allowing elected leaders to focus fully on performance from the outset.
According to him, the proposed six-year single tenure would eliminate the distraction of re-election campaigns and enable officeholders to dedicate their energy to governance.
“I now see why one of the first set of bills that I look forward to moving by God’s grace when we come back for the 11th Senate is for a bill that will only make it possible for anyone who wants to be President of this country or governor in any state of this country to spend only one tenure of six years.
“With this, you don’t even have to worry about wasting almost one and a half years of your first time thinking and struggling and looking forward to how you’ll be re-elected.
“If you know you are there for six years, only one tenure, you put in your best from day one. You know this is the only chance that you have.
“That’s my opinion. It doesn’t mean everybody will agree with me, but it also does not mean that I am prevented from doing that, because that had not been the law.
“The essence of law, the essence of parliament is because laws are like human beings, they grow,” he said.
