{"id":767392,"date":"2019-12-18T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/18\/six-year-single-term-will-improve-nigerias-democratic-proces-atiku\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:55:36","slug":"six-year-single-term-will-improve-nigerias-democratic-proces-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/18\/six-year-single-term-will-improve-nigerias-democratic-proces-atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-Year Single Term Will Improve Nigeria\u2019s Democratic Proces: Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_703656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-703656\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-703656\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/images-5.jpeg\" alt=\"Atiku\" width=\"739\" height=\"415\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-703656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People\u2019s Democratic Party Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the rejection of the six-year single term for presidents, governors by the house of representatives.<\/p>\n<p>According to the former vice president, adopting the method would have prevented election rigging by \u201cdesperate\u201d incumbents.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a bill seeking to provide for one term for the president and governors was rejected by members of the House of Representatives during a plenary session.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by Paul Ibe, spokesman to Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, he said it would have improved Nigeria\u2019s democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku stressed that the current system of a single tenure of four years with a maximum of two terms rewards incompetence \u201cbecause even incumbents that have failed would use their access to public funds to return to power by fair or foul means\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of the challenges facing our current democratic order, especially the culture of rigging that subverts the will of the people, six-year single term would have ended such untoward practices in our electoral process,\u201d Atiku said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe desperation for second term by the incumbents is the main reason why they go for broke and set the rule book on fire, thereby making free and fair elections impossible by legitimizing rigging at the expense of their challengers that have no access to public funds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>I Will Not Allow Buhari Plunge Nigeria Into Slavery: Atiku<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA situation where the incumbents deploy more public resources to their second term projects than using the funds for people\u2019s welfare encourages massive rigging that undermines electoral integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix-year single term would remove such desperation and enable the incumbents concentrate on the job for which they were elected in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn inherently incompetent incumbent will perform below average even if you give him\/her 20 years in office or give him or her $20 billion dollars\u201d, Atiku said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond term obsession \u2026 also denies political parties the opportunity to replace failed incumbents with better candidates within the parties in the name of right of first refusal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 People\u2019s Democratic Party Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the rejection of the six-year single term for presidents, governors by the house of representatives. According to the former vice president, adopting the method would have prevented election rigging by \u201cdesperate\u201d incumbents. 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