Senator Esuene Says Six Years Single Term Best for Nigeria

Former Minister of Environment, Senator Helen Esuene, has again advocated a six-year single term for any occupier of the office of Nigeria's President and the position of state governor.

Esuene who represented Eket Senatorial District, 2011 to 2015, said six years was enough for anyone elected to be president or governor to successfully implement his or her campaign promises.

Esuene who stated this while responding to questions from journalists in Calabar, said, "I was one of the proponent of a single term in office. If you have six years to stay, you use that period of time to do all what you planned to do....

The second term brings in many negative things in governance, influences everything whether good or bad so far as that person will cover every bad thing committed, so often time those people are not the best but because they pledged loyalty”.

Looking back to the period when her husband was governor of South-eastern State, that was later renamed Cross River State, Esuene who was the first" First Lady" of the Cross River State from May 27,1967 to February 3rd, 1976, also said there should be a line between governance and politics after elections, so people can get good governance.

“You know this is political regime and you have to beef up support for your husband, but in the military regime there was no need for all that. What we did was purely humanitarian bringing up the children, let the government be humane.

“But today’s politics may be we’re taking it a bit too far and we need to draw a line to where politics ends and where governance starts, because sometimes it is politics all the way, and governance is only trying to find it ways. So I think after election, a line between politics and governance should be drawn. At times you will hear as governor say, I will not do this for this people because they did not vote for me.