{"id":236842,"date":"2025-10-27T18:47:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/third-term-agenda-wouldve-ruined-nigerias-democracy-senator-shehu-sani\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:47:47","slug":"third-term-agenda-wouldve-ruined-nigerias-democracy-senator-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/third-term-agenda-wouldve-ruined-nigerias-democracy-senator-shehu-sani\/","title":{"rendered":"Third-term agenda would\u2019ve ruined Nigeria\u2019s democracy \u2013 Senator Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senator Shehu Sani says Nigeria\u2019s democracy was saved from collapse when the third-term agenda of former president Olusegun Obasanjo was stopped in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Monday, Sani said Nigerians should always appreciate former Senate President Ken Nnamani and the late Ghali Na\u2019Abba, ex-speaker of the House of Representatives, for resisting the attempt to extend presidential tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Sani, however, made an error, as Aminu Bello Masari was the Speaker at the time and not Late Na\u2019Abba.<\/p>\n<p>He drew a comparison between Nigeria and other African countries where leaders have remained in power for decades, citing Cameroon and Djibouti as examples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul Biya remains in power in Cameroon for more years and Djibouti\u2019s parliament has unanimously scrapped age limits for presidential candidates, paving the way for the incumbent to run for a sixth term in office,\u201d Sani wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are a Nigerian, always thank Senator Ken Nnamani and late Ghali Na\u2019Abba for saving you from tenure elongation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, the national assembly, under Nnamani and Masari\u2019s leadership, rejected the proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed Obasanjo to seek a third term, a decision widely regarded as a turning point for Nigeria\u2019s democratic stability.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Shehu Sani says Nigeria\u2019s democracy was saved from collapse when the third-term agenda of former president Olusegun Obasanjo was stopped in 2006. In a post on X on Monday, Sani said Nigerians should always appreciate former Senate President Ken Nnamani and the late Ghali Na\u2019Abba, ex-speaker of the House of Representatives, for resisting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shehu-Sani.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}