OLADIPO ABIOLA FROM NAIJA NEWS
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has vowed to scrap the bi-cameral legislative system in Nigeria if he emerges the president of the country in 2023.
Sowore said Nigeria currently runs a democratic system that is too expensive for the country.
As a way of cutting cost, the presidential candidate said he would push for the scrapping of either the Senate or the House of Representatives so Nigeria can run a unicameral legislative system.
He argued that not only the cost of government needs to be reduced but the size of government as well as the overhead costs continue to skyrocket.
Naija News reports he stated this on Wednesday while speaking at ‘The Roundtable’ organized by PUNCH Newspapers.
He said, “It is my legislative agenda and transformation agenda to cut down the cost of business and that the Nigeria Senate or the House of Representatives (will be scrapped); we do not need a bicameral legislative system because it is too expensive. […]
