This comment would haunt him in ways he would never imagine. Must you say everything, what happened to keeping your plans to yourself until you get there, that is if you ever get there.

echodrum:
can you pls explain?

he should state with state politics! Before talking about national level

Buttresses my point of how clueless most vying for power are. From Jonathan, Buhari and then this dude.

What executive powers would he deploy to axe the senate? The only way is probably a referendum by the people to end the duplication of role at the senate. Stop promising about what you have no idea of.

SPOT ON! FINALLY THIS DUDE I'LL HAVE MY VOTE!



it's damn pathetic that so many BLIND imbeciles want the pervasion of the kleptomaniac status quo!


the shithole DON'T NEED 2 DAMN wasteful, redundant /money draining houses. #FACT!

How are u going to do that??....wwpby a decree or by an executive order. I dnt understand. The only way to do tht is thru a decree but in a democracy there r no decrees. An executive order cannot abolish d Senate.

If it is tru a bill, den tht bill must be sent to the senate to approve it.....imagine sending a bill to d senators to disband the senate.....my 3year old nephew get sense pass this guy

phemmyfour:
Unicameral legislature is not the best, not applicable in fed system of govt

Why is it not applicable? Your government textbook says so or is there any reason that you can articulate?

dominique:
I don't agree with this. He can reduce the cost of running the Senate to the barest minimum but not scrap it altogether. A president should not be the sole decision maker in a country, that's no longer a democracy

Senate but not house of rep.

a vibrant young man I saw jim yesterday when he came to watch hausa traditional boxing

This man should face is online media and forget governance.......instead of campaigning issues

dominique:
I don't agree with this. He can reduce the cost of running the Senate to the barest minimum but not scrap it altogether. A president should not be the sole decision maker in a country, that's no longer a democracy

SolutionMee:
From today, I halt my support for this guy

He has no iota of idea of what he's doing and how government is being run

Senate, not the entire national assembly.

smart2008:
This man should face is online media and forget governance.......instead of campaigning issues

Why is that? The crooks who are ruling you, are they better than him? Nigeria youth!

The way people write garbage on nairaland baffles me. Omoyele Sowore was student Union President in Unilag 25 years ago and he went on to establish Sahara Reporter based in the USA. Someone here who has not even achieved anything in life is calling him a clown. This guy and Durotoye should be supported by all to bring an end to all these thieving old politicians. The president of France is just 40 years old. Stop collecting N5k to come and spew garbage on Nairaland.

Ziggylady:


Omoyele Sowore the clown...keep up with the circus you call 'Presidential Ambition,only sophisticated morons are deceived.

I swear this guy get sense pass rat, idiotic act. See another dictator he never reach self he don dey plan to scarab senate. Why not Rep?. See all this people that never spent a day serving Govt. Just think say Nah only mouth you fit dey take run Democracy. Egbawa oooh. Please anyone who has this guy contact just tell am say if him win in LGA for Ondo. He don become our President.

ITbomb:
It is evident that this guy does not even understand what he is doing

So u think?
Senegal has since abolish the senate to save over
$15m.
People dey suffer,no infrastructures yet dem dey carry money give the likes of Dino to dey buy flashy ,expensive cars full everywhere.

He is committing the same error that MKO Abiola made however, he can't do that by veto power and the house of assembly may not approve such proposal.

this guy is a clown. this just shows you that he doesn't know his left from his right. how is he going to get senators in the senate to vote for such when his party doesnt even have a senate rep in the red chamber? dude be talking like a nursery school pupil that is promising his friends heaven and earth if he eventually gets a bicycle.

BlackBaron:
Buttresses my point of how clueless most vying for power are. From Jonathan, Buhari and then this dude.

What executive powers would he deploy to axe the senate? The only way is probably a referendum by the people to end the duplication of role at the senate. Stop promising about what you have no idea of.

In Nigeria that is not the only way . The political reality of Nigeria is that the powers of the president are immense.


The main power he could deploy and I am not agreeing with him is the Federal might . If he campaigns and wins on that promise I do not see anything stopping him in Nigeria.

It is a political and not a legal or constituutional issue

One thing a lot of people forget is that the 1999 constiitution is essentially a military decree.
ONE decree.

It bears repeating.
The Nigerian constitution is decree 24 of 1999.
Just as it was enacted so also it can be abrogated or suspended . How?


By force.

The question is "Is it practicable " . In Nigeria yes. In fact it will not surprise me if Buhari does something like that
To achieve that a president would first need to consolidate his grip on the Armed Forces which is doable . Whether Sowore has the skill to do that is another matter but there is no shortage of advisers. How it will end is unpredictable.

There is no provision for referendums in orl law or constitution so that is a non issue.


On the political front. I am sure a president should be able to persuade his party to back him but if he fails to do so then abrogating the National Assembly , assuming authoritarian powers and declaring a transitional government with an exit date is an option.

The North did a coup in 1983 and when they were leaving put in place their own constitutiion. Do not doubt that a civilian head of state cannot do a coup against the national Assembly.

aribisala0:
Why is it not applicable? Your government textbook says so or is there any reason that you can articulate?

The process of law -making is a very serious business and must be thorough for a country of about 190 million with diverse ethnic and religious views

I think he has a point. If he wants to abolish the senate and adopt Unicameral parliament, he must push for a referendum just like they did in Mauritania, but would these thieves in the red chamber allow that? That is the question Sowore needs to answer.

Who are the real Nigerians who go out to vote? Personally I wish I could. But I will dare not be in a place where violence can erupt at any moment then probably get myself hurt. So are many other people who would rather sit at home where it's safe than take any risks on election day.
But what we really need is a political coup. We need to take power from the hands of the current people who are making us suffer in our father land.
These same people have their machinery in place already and they know how to rig elections, get the poor people just to make up the numbers they need to win.
While people like me sit and watch the wrong person being sworn at the end of it all.

Ventura1:

Your last statement gave credence to the kind of dysfunctional education we are given in this country, don't think, just give me the way I taught you.

What is wrong in developing a Presidential model that'll work for our country, must we practice it the way American does? We should break free from mental slavery.

I SUPPORT SOWORE2019

It beats my imagination why youths are finding it difficult to support young aspiring thinking people like Sowore or Moghalu rather than the recycled Buhari, Atiku, Makarfi and the old elites. The way forward is what Nigerians need.

MrALIVE:
I am highly disappointed in you guys for the comments am reading here...this goes to show that some of the youths will be worst than the current crop of leaders if given opportunity to come into power.

Don't feel disappointed bro, it's the wish of many including me to change d country's legislative arm to uni-camera legislature though, but d truth must be told, I don't see how he's going to 'remove' the Senate under a democratic govt. Except if d nation's constitution is amended outrightly(d country is restructured). Although, I like d man, but he hasn't explained to us d magic he would perform in achieving d feat.

am totally onboard but where will he get such powers from.

Nigerian Youths may never breathe a sigh of relief from the hands of their oppressors if they miss this opportunity to elect Omoyele Sowore as President, This guy is the Last man standing when it comes to Real struggle in Nigeria, Many of his contemporary who fought the Military were Killed and some were imprisoned to death

Sowore is indeed the Last man standing amongst the Unionist of the 80s, who refused to hands down to corruption even when it was profitable to do so,
In the 80s when we were all in school, Sowore made name in all Nigerian Campuses as a notorious incorruptible Student Unionist, in the days when Aluta was Aluta before Obasanjo infiltrated the students with compromiser

Unionist fought the Police to a halt and were feared By the present Oppressor (Police and Government)

Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, University of Benin, University of Calabar and a host of other schools cooperated and were united as a front against the government draconian rule. no one thought that Nigeria will be this down

This same Sowore was a Fire brand known to all union members across the tertiary institution, some of his contemporary were not so lucky, "Africa of OAU " was Killed BY government agent, one of the brightest union Leaders from IFE

Sowore is not confused, He knows what a good system aught to be, If the Youths fail to sue for this Guy, it will take another 100 Years for Nigeria to be Liberated

Mind you all these countries abolished the Senate Bahia, Ceará, Pernambuco, São Paulo (1930), Croatia (2001), Denmark (1953), Egypt (2013), Greece (1935), Hungary, South Korea (1960), Peru (1992), Portugal (1926), Sweden (1970), Turkey (1980), Venezuela (1999) and Mauritania (2017) once possessed upper houses but abolished them to adopt unicameral systems. The have a system far better than the oppressive system called Nigeria

See this charlatan called Sowore. How do you abolish the senate when you need the senate to amend the constitution? He is as usual, telling people what they want to hear: Lies.

And how will you do that? The President has no powers to abolish the senate

Ezniteadin:
Nigerian Youths may never breathe a sigh of relief from the hands of their oppressors if they miss this opportunity to elect Omoyele Sowore as President, This guy is the Last man standing when it comes to Real struggle in Nigeria, Many of his contemporary who fought the Military were Killed and some were imprisoned to death

Sowore is indeed the Last man standing amongst the Unionist of the 80s, who refused to hands down to corruption even when it was profitable to do so,
In the 80s when we were all in school, Sowore made name in all Nigerian Campuses as a notorious incorruptible Student Unionist, in the days when Aluta was Aluta before Obasanjo infiltrated the students with compromiser

Unionist fought the Police to a halt and were feared By the present Oppressor (Police and Government)

Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, University of Benin, University of Calabar and a host of other schools cooperated and were united as a front against the government draconian rule. no one thought that Nigeria will be this down

This same Sowore was a Fire brand known to all union members across the tertiary institution, some of his contemporary were not so lucky, "Africa of OAU " was Killed BY government agent, one of the brightest union Leaders from IFE

Sowore is not confused, He knows what a good system aught to be, If the Youths fail to sue for this Guy, it will take another 100 Years for Nigeria to be Liberated

Mind you all these countries abolished the Senate Bahia, Ceará, Pernambuco, São Paulo (1930), Croatia (2001), Denmark (1953), Egypt (2013), Greece (1935), Hungary, South Korea (1960), Peru (1992), Portugal (1926), Sweden (1970), Turkey (1980), Venezuela (1999) and Mauritania (2017) once possessed upper houses but abolished them to adopt unicameral systems. The have a system far better than the oppressive system called Nigeria

Most of the countries you quoted were dictatorships. You don't abolish legislature in a democratic setting. Besides, given his antecedents as a blackmailer and a rabble rouser, Sowore is hardly an exemplar for good leadership.

chronique:
this guy is a clown. this just shows you that he doesn't know his left from his right. how is he going to get senators in the senate to vote for such when his party doesnt even have a senate rep in the red chamber? dude be talking like a nursery school pupil that is promising his friends heaven and earth if he eventually gets a bicycle.

Do your findings and see how it's possible, I would expect you to do your research about the issue instead of saying something you have little knowledge about. Are you aware that the Nigerian President is the most powerful leader in the World based on our Constitution ? Everything is possible ,

einsteine:


Most of the countries you quoted were dictatorships. You don't abolish legislature in a democratic setting. Besides, given his antecedents as a blackmailer and a rabble rouser, Sowore is hardly an exemplar for good leadership.

Your All includes Sweden and Denmark right? I hope you saw the countries before your ill advised conclusion ?

Ezniteadin:


Your All includes Sweden and Denmark right? I hope you saw the countries before your ill advised conclusion ?

What part of "MOST" don't you understand?

Check what you quoted.

mixter:

Do your findings and see how it's possible, I would expect you to do your research about the issue instead of saying something you have little knowledge about. Are you aware that the Nigerian President is the most powerful leader in the World based on our Constitution ? Everything is possible ,

You tell us how it is possible. We are waiting.