‘Scrap Senate, reduce Reps, slash FG's size’
*Drop bicameral structure of NASS — Akeredolu *Says Nigerians’ limit of endurance over-stretched *1999 constitution below standard — Gbaja CHAIRMAN of the South-West Governors’ Forum and governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, yesterday, said Nigeria is in dire straits and called for the adoption of a unicameral legislature, against the current bicameral structure. This came on a day Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said the 1999 Constitution has fallen short of the expectations of Nigerians, and thus needed a drastic overhaul. On his part, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State reiterated the call for Special Economic Status for Lagos as the country's economic nerve centre. Unicameral legislature better for Nigeria — Akeredolu Akeredolu, who spoke at the South-West zonal public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review in Akure, Ondo State, said membership of the National Assembly should be ...