Two-term serving Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde recommended a single five-year term for political leaders in Nigeria.
Governor Makinde said the nation needs to take a cue from the single-term leadership of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN).
The Governor made the call while reacting to PFN’s National President, Bishop Wale Oke claiming that there is no second term in the leadership of the association.
Makinde, in his opening remarks at the National Executive Retreat of PFN, in Ibadan, said Nigeria must draw lessons from the one-term agreement of the PFN.
He, however, asserted that while four years may not be sufficient to accomplish one’s goals, they are sufficient to have an influence.
When the chance to address the matter occurs, he added, it would be understood that five or six years are sufficient to complete whatever one plans to achieve.
“I am hearing for the first time that there is no second term in the PFN. Maybe, we need to learn one or two things from that arrangement for our nation. I am a supporter of a single-term structure.
“As a matter of fact, I did not want any second term and I told the fathers of faith that four years is not enough to do everything that you want to do but it is long enough to make your own impact and go your own way.
“If we get the opportunity to discuss this, I think five or six years single term, maybe five years will really be enough for most of us to do whatever it is that we are supposed to do,” he said.
In addition, Makinde exhorted the people to engage in partisan politics in order to advance their preferences and choices in the upcoming election, as well as to pray for the leaders regardless of their disagreements.
“If we continue to make riff-raffs and people who are not as intelligent as us to keep making decisions for us, those decisions are binding on all of us,” Makinde said.
