{"id":17155,"date":"2024-02-14T18:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/60-lawmakers-move-to-end-presidential-system-of-government\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:02:47","slug":"60-lawmakers-move-to-end-presidential-system-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/60-lawmakers-move-to-end-presidential-system-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"60 lawmakers move to end presidential system of government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A group of 60 lawmakers, collectively known as the Parliamentary Group, has launched a movement to terminate the existing presidential system in the country and revert to the parliamentary model adopted during the First Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliamentary Group introduced a constitution alteration bill on Tuesday during a session at the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Minority Leader Kingsley Chinda and other members presented three constitutional amendment bills during the plenary.<\/p>\n<p>During a press briefing at the House Press Centre, Abdulsamad Dasuki, the spokesperson for the group, elucidated the key points of the bills.<br \/>\nThe lawmakers, led by Abdulsamad Dasuki, expressed dissatisfaction with the costly presidential system and the formidable powers vested in the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo wonder the Nigerian President appears to be one of the most powerful presidents in the world,\u201d Dasuki remarked.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the imperfections of the presidential system of government, emphasising the high cost of governance and the excessive powers of the executive members, who lack direct accountability to the people.<\/p>\n<p>Confident in their pursuit, the lawmakers set a targeted timeline of 2031 for the constitutional amendment to facilitate the transition.<\/p>\n<p>Dasuki underscored the group\u2019s aim to ignite a conversation about the inefficiencies of the current parliamentary system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bills presented today seek a return to the system of government adopted by our founders, which made governance accountable, responsible, responsive, and ultimately less expensive,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>60 lawmakers move to end presidential system of government<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 60 lawmakers, collectively known as the Parliamentary Group, has launched a movement to terminate the existing presidential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10686,761],"tags":[648,764,180,2260,762],"class_list":["post-17155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-parliamentary-group","category-top-headlines","tag-group","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-parliamentary","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}