The Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) has thrown its weight behind the six-year single tenure being proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The chairman of the party, Chief Sam Nkire, who stated this at the special National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party held in Abuja, however advised that the present administration should not benefit from the proposal in order not to destabilise the polity.
In a statement, the party described the proposal “as an instrument for advancing socio-economic and political development in Nigeria.”
According to him, the bill would afford leaders the opportunity to execute all their policies and projects at the expiration of six years.
“The bill will discourage the still birth of socio-economic projects in Nigeria; hence leaders will have no excuse not to complete their political projects within a six-year single term,” Nkire said.
Reviewing the 2011 general election, the chairman said that many parties were beaten in the governorship, senatorial and National Assembly elections, leading to the collapse of most of the political parties, while some of them entered into alliance out of necessity.
“Such marriages, no doubt, have weakened the fabric of political opposition in the country,” he said.
He recalled that PPA recorded a landmark victory in the 2007 general elections, but was unable to repeat the same feet in the 2011 general elections, adding that failure of the party to perform well in the last election would not deter it from pushing ahead.
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