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He said he was disappointed by the fact that the lawmakers had thrown away the baby with the bath water at the expense of the larger interest of the country.
Abubakar regretted that eight-year term of office rewards incompetence because even incumbents that have failed would use their access to public funds to return to power by fair or foul means.
He argued that the desperation for second term was not necessarily driven by patriotism or the passion for service, but by the obsession with the greed for power for its own sake.
The former vice president said that the rejection of the six-year single term was a mistake because little attention was paid to its merits.
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He was, however, of the view that current holders of the offices under the proposed constitutional review should not be entitled to a six-year term at the expiration of their second term. (NAN)