Presidential aspirant, Omoyele Sowore, has said if elected as president in 2019, he would opt for a unicameral legislature where the lawmakers would serve on part- time basis and free funds for developmental programmes.
He described the Senate as a drain pipe on the nations’ resources.
Sowore, who is the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, said members of the current Senate “are old and retired top civil servants who are out to siphon the nation’s resources to the detriment of the downtrodden.”
He also revealed that the Federal Government spends a whopping N1 trillion yearly as salaries and emoluments including constituency allowances, stressing that the huge amount should have been channel to education and other projects that would benefit Nigerians.
Bemoaning the rotational system adopted in country “because it is a lazy man’s approach to politics, ” Sowore insisted that the system should be jettisoned.
He said: ”We have rotated power based on religion, ethnicity, and region which has failed us. Therefore, leaders who are based in the North do not have the interest of Northerners at heart likewise the South West and South East. Therefore what we are looking for in Nigeria is a leader who has the interest of the masses at heart, irrespective of where he comes from.”
”Wicked politicians have hijacked the affairs of this country. They have succeeded in bastardizing the country by using the so-called zoning formula. If not, what is currently happening on Borno, Benue, Plateau and Zamfara States is a far cry from what the North deserves from Northern leaders.”