Dantata Backs Abolishment Of Presidential System, Transition To Parliamentary

Elder statesman, Alhaji Aminu Dantata has thrown his weight behind the move to end the current presidential system and revert to the parliamentary system previously used in Nigeria’s First Republic.

While speaking on the development on Thursday, Dantata said the parliamentary system is better than the presidential system of government because it is cheaper.

He disclosed this when some members of the House of Representatives spearheading the transition move paid him a consultation visit at his Kano residence.

Osun Defender recalls that the House of Representatives has passed, for the first reading, the bill seeking to transform the presidential system of government into a parliamentary system.

Titled ”The Bills proposing constitutional alterations for a transition to a parliamentary system of government,” it was sponsored by sixty lawmakers and read for the first time during Wednesday’s plenary in Abuja.

Briefing newsmen after plenary, the spokesperson of the sixty-member group, Hon. Abdussamad Dasuki (Sokoto, PDP), said that the proposed alterations, when passed, would significantly impact the national political landscape.