As anxiety continues to mount over the propriety of the proposed six-year single tenure for president and governors in Nigeria, the Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, yesterday, voiced its opposition to the plan, saying that it was unacceptable to the people of the region.

NEF’s Secretary, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, said: “We in the north remain stoutly opposed to the proposal and will never support it because it is a double-edged sword that can make a tyrannical president to continuously oppress the defenceless citizenry without any remedy.

“If you have a bad president, who does not believe in the welfare and progress of the nation, it means that the people would have no way of asking him to step aside until the end of the gruesome six-year tenure.

“The people of the north are comfortable with the current provision of four-year renewable tenure based on performance and acceptance of the electorate so that a non-performing president can be voted out after the first tenure.”

Abdullahi, who asked the Nigerian lawmakers to throw out the controversial amendment, pointed out that they should work on more beneficial laws to tackle rising monumental corruption and security challenges in the land.

Says NGF, NSGF crises a blessing

Reflecting on the crises that has split the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, and the Northern States Governors’ Forum, NSGF, Abdullahi described it as a blessing in disguise, saying that it had exposed the friends and foes of the region ahead of the 2015 election.

According to him, the ongoing disagreement among the governors had made it possible for the North to know those who are in support or opposed to its clamour for the return of the presidency to the north in 2015.

The NEF scribe said: “What we are witnessing now is manifestation of the self-serving struggle by some governors to protect their ego and interest and it has nothing to do with the people of the north or Nigeria.

“We in the NEF count the current face-off in the NSGF and the NGF as a blessing in a way because if the election had not been won and lost, we would not have known the black legs in our midst, actively working for their own pecuniary interest.

“To us, what is important is that whether the NSGF is alive or dead, the northern people will remain alert and alive in their bid to get their political right come 2015.”

It will be recalled that many northern governors, last week, boycotted the meeting of the NSGF in Kaduna in protest against the outcome of the NGF election, which was held in Abuja on May 24.

Many of the northern governors are angry that the chairman of the NSGF and Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, repudiated from the consensus agreement they had earlier adopted to present Governor David Jang of Plateau State for adoption and not for election during the NGF election.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has already opted out of the NSGF in protest against the outcome of the poll.

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Since this man came to earth this is the first time he will be making sense.

so funny... These people should focus on the security challenges in their areas and stop barking for once.

Let's see who will finally win btw them and the legislators.

When presido came to power, the first thing he wanted is this. The administratiom wants to perpetuate corruption by all means. Without the possibility of re-election, accountability is forever lost in our polity.