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Shehu Sani Lists 20 Dangers of 6-year one term limit
Newsdiaryonline Tue Aug 2,2011
1-It will subjugate voters to a prolonged and unchallenged fate
in the hands of non performing
leaders.
2-It will deny voters the opportunity to limit the harm of a
corrupt leader.
3-It will promote predatory and unaccountable leadership.
4-It will limit the choice of voters
5-It will stifle the development of electoral process.
6-It will promote dictatorship at state and Federal levels.
7-It will terminally muzzle opposition parties and entrench one
party rule.
8-It will promote the philosophy of loot and go.
9-It will entrench sectional and ethnic politics.
10-It will entrench political arrogance.
11-It will shorten the political life span of a typical
Nigerian.
12-It will suffocate generational shift.
13-It will generate ambiguity and constitutional
crisis.
14-It will overheat the polity and waste valuable time that
should be devoted for development.
15-It will entrench nepotism.
16-It will entrench an absolute power syndrome.
17-It will render the legislature at state level docile.
18-It will further encourage violence as a means of ejecting bad
leaders.
19-It will formally induct the do- or- die ideology into our
electoral politics.
20-It will bury fairness, justice and equity in governance.
Shehu sani
President,
Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria.
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