Nigeria: 3rd term for the president

Oluniyi David Ajao comments on the possibility of Nigeria's Obasanjo running for a third term which would require a change to the constitution. He asks: “What precident are we laying down for the next generation? What if Nigeria later has a tyrant for head of state who decides to usurp power by automatically extending his mandate with a third-term bid, what do we then do”?

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