{"id":176653,"date":"2019-12-17T16:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=176653"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:39:11","slug":"reps-introduce-6years-single-term-bill-for-president-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=176653","title":{"rendered":"Reps introduce 6years single term bill for president, governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/12\/Reps-introduce-6years-single-term-bill-for-president-governors.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\"><\/div>\n<p>The House of Representatives have introduced a bill to change the tenure of President, Governors to a single term of 6years.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by reps member John Dyegh of the All Progressive Congress, the bill has passed through a first reading and has been listed for a second reading by the House.<\/p>\n<p>The bill seeks to change the tenure of President from the 4years of two terms to a single term of 6years.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, the bill also change the tenure of members of the National Assembly and States Houses of Assembly to 6years from the current 4years term.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is coming at a time of rumours that the incumbent, Muhamadu Buhari is seeking a third term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives have introduced a bill to change the tenure of President, Governors to a single term of 6years. Sponsored by reps member John Dyegh of the All Progressive Congress, the bill has passed through a first reading and has been listed for a second reading by the House. The bill seeks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,41,12645],"class_list":["post-176653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-speaker-house-of-representative"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}