Prof. Ango Abdullahi, a member of the Northern Elders Forum, has endorsed moves by some lawmakers to return Nigeria to the Parliamentary System of Government.
Abdullahi, a former Vice-chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria,said this when he received some lawmakers from the House of Representatives on Friday in Abuja lauding the sponsors of the bill at the House of Representatives.
He said that the Constituent Assembly of 1976 to 77 was tele-guided by the military to adopt the U. S Presidential System of Government for Nigeria.
“If you are talking of failure of the system, it’s totally unfair to say that parliamentary system failed in Nigeria. It didn’t, the problem was that it has not been given sufficient time.
“So, my personal position is that, I’m 100 per cent against the presidential system of government, it’s an unsuitable system not only for Nigeria, but any country…
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