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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Yusuf Ali, has called for the adoption of a six-year single term for the offices of the President and state governors in the country. Ali disclosed this in Ifetedo, Osun State, on Friday, at the inauguration of the remodeled Central Mosque for the town, a project he financed. The legal practitioner said the adoption of a six-year term of office for the offices of the president and state governors would not only end self-succession while serving the first term but would also prevent fights that usually characterise relationships among politicians. He noted that a six-year single term of office remains a good option for Nigeria’s political system, lamenting that lack of character has also affected negatively governance in the country. He said, “I have always been an advocate that a single six-year tenure is good for our system. It would stop the fight for self-succession after the first four years. You will know that once you spend your six years, you are out of the place and there will be peace relatively.” Speaking further, Ali said Nigeria’s Constitution has enough provisions to deal with bad leadership, but blamed challenges the country is facing operating the law on lack of character. “There are provisions in the law that can deal with an inept leadership. There is provision in the constitution for impeachment but whether you abuse it or use it wisely is a different thing. Related News Minimum wage: NULGE tackles govs for sidelining LG workers South Korea bans President Yoon from leaving country When the president needs an army of town criers “The system is self-cleansing, but only if we have character. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have character, and you need character for a system to work well. “However, if Nigerians don’t change their attitudes, nothing will take us to any Eldorado. We must first of all agree on that,” Ali said. Speaking on why he embarked on the remodeling of the mosque, Ali said the project was a response to the divine call. He said, “What pushed me to remodel the central mosque is the call of Allah. Nigerians should be their brother’s keeper. Those whom Allah has endowed should try and bless others. “Once you die, you are not going to take anything. It is in our interest to invest in people, institutions, communities, and humanity. That’s the only way to go.” In his goodwill message to the Ifetedo community at the event, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, said the mosque should serve as a place that would contribute to the development of Islam. He said, “It is not a place that would be locked. Apart from praying there, it should be used for other developmental engagements.”
With a focus on human rights, US policy toward Latin America under Jimmy Carter briefly tempered a long tradition of interventionism in a key sphere of American influence, analysts say. Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, defied the furor of US conservatives to negotiate the handover of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control, suspended aid to multiple authoritarian governments in the region, and even attempted to normalize relations with Cuba. Carter’s resolve to chart a course toward democracy and diplomacy, however, was severely tested in Central America and Cuba, where he was forced to balance his human rights priorities with pressure from adversaries to combat the spread of communism amid the Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union. “Latin America was fundamental and his global policy was oriented toward human rights, democratic values and multilateral cooperation,” political analyst Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank in Washington, told AFP. During his 1977-1981 administration, which was sandwiched between the Republican presidencies of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, the Democrat sought to take a step back from US alignment with right-wing dictatorships in Latin America. – Panama Canal – An important symbol of Carter’s approach was the signing of two treaties in 1977 to officially turn over the Panama Canal in 1999. “Jimmy Carter understood that if he did not return the canal to Panama, the relationship between the United States and Panama could lead to a new crisis in a country where Washington could not afford the luxury of instability,” said Luis Guillermo Solis, a political scientist and former president of Costa Rica. Carter called the decision, which was wildly unpopular back home, “the most difficult political challenge I ever had,” as he accepted Panama’s highest honor in 2016. He also hailed the move as “a notable achievement of moving toward democracy and freedom.” During his term, Carter opted not to support Nicaraguan strongman Anastasio Somoza, who was subsequently overthrown by the leftist Sandinista Front in 1979. But in El Salvador, the American president had to “make a very uncomfortable pact with the government,” said Shifter. To prevent communists from taking power, Carter resumed US military assistance for a junta which then became more radical, engaging in civilian massacres and plunging El Salvador into a long civil war. Carter took a critical approach to South American dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, suspending arms deliveries and imposing sanctions in some cases. But his efforts “did not achieve any progress in terms of democratization,” said Argentine political scientist Rosendo Fraga. – ‘Let’s go to the ball game’ – The American president also tried to normalize relations with Cuba 15 years after the missile crisis. He relaxed sanctions that had been in force since 1962, supported secret talks and enabled limited diplomatic representation in both countries. “With him, for the first time, the possibility of dialogue rather than confrontation as a framework for political relations opened up,” Jesus Arboleya, a former Cuban diplomat, told AFP. But in 1980, a mass exodus of 125,000 Cubans to the United States, with Fidel Castro’s blessing, created an unexpected crisis. It “hurt Carter politically with the swarm of unexpected immigrants,” said Jennifer McCoy, a professor of political science at Georgia State University. Castro continued to support Soviet-backed African governments and even deployed troops against Washington’s wishes, finally putting an end to the normalization process. However, more than 20 years later, Carter made a historic visit to Havana as ex-president, at the time becoming the highest-profile American politician to set foot on Cuban soil since 1959. During the 2002 visit, “he made a bold call for the US to lift its embargo, but he also called on Castro to embrace democratic opening,” said McCoy, who was part of the US delegation for the trip, during which Castro encouraged Carter to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Cuban All-Star baseball game. “Castro was sitting in the front row and we were afraid he would rise to give a long rebuttal to Carter’s speech. But he didn’t. He just said, ‘Let’s go to the ball game.'” In the years following Carter’s presidency, Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) would go on to resume a full-frontal confrontation with Cuba. Decades later, Barack Obama (2009-2017) opened a new phase of measured normalization, which Donald Trump (2017-2021) brought to an end. US President Joe Biden promised to review US policy toward Cuba, but hardened his stance after Havana cracked down on anti-government protests in 2021. “Carter showed that engagement and diplomacy are more fruitful than isolation,” McCoy said. bur-lp-rd-jb/lbc/mlr/bfm/sst/bbk With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world as a leading global news agency. AFP provides fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the issues affecting our daily lives.