Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has suggested that the office of the president be rotated among the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria on a single term of six years.
The rotation will be between the north and south, Atiku recommended in a proposals he sent to the Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Barau Jibrin.
The proposals dated August 30, 2024, also contained recommendations that bordered on themes such as procedures for the educational qualification of candidate(s) in elections and internal democracy in political parties.
In a document seen on Friday, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections said Section 135(2) of the constitution should be amended to read: “Subject to the provisions of the subsection (1), the President shall vacate his office at the expiration of a period of six years commencing from the date.
In the explanatory note covering the proposals, Atiku said the amendments sought in the review of the constitution would raise the standard of the educational qualification of political office seekers, and an end to violent takeover of political parties, thereby strengthening the internal structure of political parties.
Atiku said, “The implication of the above is that political parties are allowed very wide latitude to breach the perimeter of laws on elections.
“Such indiscipline by political parties and infidelity to the electoral parameters yield chaos in the system. The above amendments will enthrone the discipline that is needed in a democracy.”
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