Tag: Third Term

….Says democracy”ll die without reform  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has issued a stark warning that democracy risks collapse unless urgently reformed, while also breaking his silence on long-standing allegations that he once schemed for a third term in office. Speaking at the Democracy Dialogue of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation in Accra, Ghana, Obasanjo declared that democracy in its current practice is “failing to deliver” and could soon be “buried” if not restructured. “Democracy dies because democracy has refused to be reformed; what we have now is a government of some…

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said he would have gotten a third-term in office if he wanted. Speaking on a television programme on Thursday, the former president said his decision not to run for a third term was because he never wanted it, adding that some ex-governors in his administration also wanted a third term. He said the governors were waiting for him to make the first move before they pushed for their third-term ambition. According to Obasanjo: “If I had wanted a third term, I would have gotten it;…