CNPP RAGE: Ekweremadu Under Investigation Over Single-Tenure Presidency Proposal

 

 

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) on Wednesday called on the Director General of State Security Service (SSS) and other relevant security agencies to urgently investigate Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy Senate President, for his treasonable single-tenure statement.
The reaction followed the proposal for a single term for the president and governors by the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, describing it as another form of tenure elongation.
Political stakeholders warned the National Assembly to step back from such a move, which CNPP described as a criminal subversion of the polity.
Ekweremadu, who is also chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, suggested tenure elongation as a panacea to the political tension in the polity, which he said arose from the crave for re-election by the president and governors, adding that it should start from 2017.
In a statement signed by Osita Okechukwu, National Publicity Secretary, CNPP said that foisting the rejected 7-year single tenure through the back door of the Doctrine of Necessity will be a grave disservice to Nigeria, and portends more danger than the four year double tenure.

CNPP noted that Ekweremadu also stated, “those fighting the president have hinged their complaint on the fact that if the president gets second term by the time they are gone, he would start to chase them….. and that the mistake we made in our recommendation is that we said the incumbent would not benefit.”
Commenting of the fact how the single tenure would be achieved, CNPP pointed out that Ekweremadu’s suggestion of the "Doctrine of Necessity and some kind of jurisprudential approach, and some kind of transition of two years," calling it a sheer criminal subversion of the highest order.
"Why ease out Mr President, instead of vote-in or vote-out?" It asked.
Thus, CNPP urged the investigation of the Deputy Senate President because similar voices close to President Goodluck Jonathan, like Alhaji Asari-Dokubo and Kingsley Kuku, have made similar statements that heavens will fall if President Jonathan loses the 2015 election.