Ex-Senate President, Wabara backs Jonathan's six year term Proposal

[emezico]

Former Senate president, Adolphus Wabara, has backed President Goodluck Jonathan's proposed constitutional amendment on a  single six-year tenure bill for presidents, governors, members of the national and state Houses of Assembly.

Wabara told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that he was relieved that a proposal he presented to the Senate on Thursday May, 15 2007 was being re-echoed by the president four years later.

"I was one of the first Nigerians who made that proposal during my third term speech on May 2007 and I am happy that the president is re-echoing that,'' he said.

The former senate president also defended the timing of the constitutional amendment, insisting that "the country must move on'', despite the myriad of challenges.

"You do not have to finish one problem before you go to another; constitutional amendment is a very long process that is why the president deemed it fit to start now (early),'' he said.