A former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, has called for the abolition of the state legislative and executive arms of government in the country. He lamented the arm of government at that level across the country was not living up to the billing. Ebute spoke at the 2022 National Legislative Conference in Abuja. He said, “The impunities and the criminal breaches of the provisions of the 1999 Constitution are being committed by the chief state executives and to which the state legislators close their eyes. “The United States, whose presidential system we copied from in 1979, has no state Assembly or state Congress. The states only have state senates. “I advocate for the complete abolition of the state legislatures and the offices of the state chief executives to have only two tiers of government in Nigeria namely federal and local governments.” Ebute also decried the legislative turnover witnessed in the National Assembly, saying the develop...
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