₦airaland Forum

fergie001:
A Constitution Amendment Bill seeking to return the Country to a Parliamentary System of Government has passed a second reading at the House of Representatives.

The Minority Leader and Reps member representing Obio-Akpor Federal Constituency, Kingsley Ogundu Chinda (PDP - Rivers) & 59 others in their proposed bill advocate the Office of Prime Minister as Head of Government.

"A Bill for An Act to alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to provide for the Office of Prime Minister as Head of Government and the Office of the President as Head of State and to provide for a framework the the mode of election to the said offices and for Related Matters (HB. 1115)."

This is big news! We pray it gets passed and signed into Law.

Awesome01:
Instead of this why not a Bill to change geopolitical zones to Regions with each headed by its own Heads of Region.

Thereby scapping either the Senate or the HOR and subsequently allow each region's HOR to make laws that is suitable and applicable to their respective regions.

A Bill to turn all these 6 or 7 geopolitical zones to actual regions with each having its own supervising leader to manage their own regions the way they like and with a President of a United Regions of Nigeria.

Advantages:
. It will bring serious competitive development
. It will relief the stress on the Federal government.
. It will foster peace and communal understanding of values, customs and tribal unity.
. It will help in regional policing.
. It will reduce waste in redundant ministries.
. And more.

That can only work in a parliamentary system of government they are trying to pass the bill on. It is a vital step to regionalism.

You cant have the system you mentioned under presidential system we are currently running.

Hope you get where this state actors headed by president is heading now?

Yeye bill.

How about a bill to make the Parliament a unicameral one?

Why do we need over 500 people in Parliament? Doing what exactly?

I can make laws for free for crying out loud.

What useless laws are they making when citizens are dying of hunger?

Another channel to waste money.head of govt and head of state ..instead of reducing house of rep members from 360 to 36 and make it part time and senator to 36 you are adding more offices.

That's true fiscal federalism. Supported 👏

The Bill should see the light of the day.

I'm not a fan of Tinubu. But if he could do this, God will bless him immediately.

It's what we're advocating for: true fiscal federalism!

zero8zero:
So why was the bill to have presidential election same day as others passed second reading?. Why not replace it with parliamentary election. I support this bill, let's go back to parliamentary.

Irrespective of the election😀 type, Nigeria will still happen🙃.

olyrayy:
The North is not a monolith. Tafawa Balewa's party had the largest number of votes, but they were far from being the majority. They needed to form a coalition with another party to run the government.

By the way, Obafemi Awolowo approached Azikiwe and asked for a coalition. Both parties, combined with some other Northern minority parties would have been enough to form a coalition. Azikiwe would have been prime minister and Awolowo wanted to be minister of finance.

Would you blame Azikiwe?

How do you expect him to form Government with a man that betrayed him and used tribalism to get his NCNC members to defect to AG and prevent Azikiwe from becoming Premier Western Region that his party, NCNC, won the majority in the House?

If you were the one, would you trust such a man?

alfarouq:
Stupid assertion. So Awolowo and Zik who struggled with for the control of western region can register a party but Ahmadu Bello should not. By the way, have you read about how Awolowo outmanoeuvred Zik for the control of western region. It does not matter who is the government or which government we have, as long as people will shroud their hypocrisy in the garb of enlightenment, Nigeria wont progress.

So, where do you stand gan gan?

After prime minister what next ?

Una no need King 👑 of Nigeria ??

eedimo:
Who will sign all this bills into law ?

E reach to ask o

ogbonti:
May God in his infinite mercy bless you

These fools here saying they do not want parliamentary system here fail to realize

1. There will be a shadow cabinet that means, the opposition will be payed and politicians will be more relaxed not to defect to ruling party

2, There will robust debates always before money is spent and no one President can capture all the arms of government as we see now

3. Elections will be cheaper to conduct because you are only focused on your federal constituency and not the whole country

4. This will attract the best and the brightest members of the society to represent their people - Drug lords and criminals wont make it there

5. The shadow cabinet brings in a better opposition not like what we see now where politicians only wait for the next election

6. The Prime Minister is the Head of Government and the President has powers too to check mate the Legislative arm so there is balance

7. It is not a winner takes it all situation - coalitions exist and every party tries to outperform the other to gain the people consent always

8. The President and the Prime Minister (who are members of different parties must work together) not One man becoming a King over all

9. Tribal Marginalization will reduce as at least 95% of all tribes will have a chance to seat at the Federal Parliament with their Representatives

10. The Institutions like INEC, Police, Army , CBN etc are stronger in Parliamentary systems due to strong oversights.


It was during Parliamentary system we had 23 years old Matthew Mbu become a Federal Ministern in this Nigeria - Can that happen today?

With Hundreds of Billions of Nigeria required to contest Presidential election ? so when that All powerful President emerges, why will he

any 23- year old who did not contribute anything financially substantial to his campaign?

You are a good analyst.
I believe this country will work again.

ogaemma:
You are a good analyst.
I believe this country will work again.

Thanks a lot - I hope so too

Tinubu's backdoor to retain power

Penguin2:
Would you blame Azikiwe?

How do you expect him to form Government with a man that betrayed him and used tribalism to get his NCNC members to defect to AG and prevent Azikiwe from becoming Premier Western Region that his party, NCNC, won the majority in the House?

If you were the one, would you trust such a man?

That wasn't a betrayal. I don't think they were allies in the first place.

But I mean, in the end, didn't Azikiwe's party end up forming an alliance with the AG? But it was too late.

yemmit90:
Military men caused the civil war and not regionalism.

Regionalism is the right way to go if this country is to work, and I see this step as a vital step towards it.

It was regionalism that made the political atmosphere so tense that a coup happened.

just creating more offices to loot money.

Svoboda:
Regional government my left arse. A proponent of regionalism should not be suspending democracy in a federating unit. That act alone has exposed him as an expedient champion of regionalism.

Suspending democracy how? Are you referring to the Rivers issue?

olyrayy:
That wasn't a betrayal. I don't think they were allies in the first place.

But I mean, in the end, didn't Azikiwe's party end up forming an alliance with the AG? But it was too late.

It wasn’t betrayal but what?

famouscargo4u:
Suspending democracy how? Are you referring to the Rivers issue?

Yes, I actually am.

Penguin2:
It wasn’t betrayal but what?

How can it be betrayal if they were opponents from the get go?

fergie001:
A Constitution Amendment Bill seeking to return the Country to a Parliamentary System of Government has passed a second reading at the House of Representatives.

The Minority Leader and Reps member representing Obio-Akpor Federal Constituency, Kingsley Ogundu Chinda (PDP - Rivers) & 59 others in their proposed bill advocate the Office of Prime Minister as Head of Government.

"A Bill for An Act to alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to provide for the Office of Prime Minister as Head of Government and the Office of the President as Head of State and to provide for a framework the the mode of election to the said offices and for Related Matters (HB. 1115)."

Ogundu don dey initiate bill to accommodate him Slave master Wike. Man wey no get anything to offer na to dey sponsor guys to carryout social media vendetta on perceived enemies online una sabi. Men that will spend 20years in Government with nothing to show for it rather, will be initiating bills that will not benefit their constituents.

Svoboda:
Yes, I actually am.

That came as a necessity. It did not remove democracy. Rule of law is still respected.

famouscargo4u:
That came as a necessity. It did not remove democracy. Rule of law is still respected.

There's no rule of law in an emergency rule. Beyond that, it was not a necessity. Rather it was a matter of expediency. Undertone power consolidation.