Merging of Reps and Senate gains more support as APC chieftain backs it

Abiodun Salami, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has advocated for Nigeria to implement a unicameral legislative structure in order to lower the expense of governing.

Salami, a former APC assistant publicity secretary in Lagos, made the announcement during a Sunday interview with NAN.

In response to requests in certain quarters for the nation to abandon its two-chambered National Assembly in favour of a unicameral legislature in order to save costs associated with the government, he was acting.

According to NAN, a bicameral legislature consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives, whereas a unicameral parliament has just one chamber.

China’s National People’s Congress, Norway’s Storting, Sweden’s Riksdag, Denmark’s Folketing, and Portugal’s Assembly of the Republic are a few nations having unicameral legislatures.

Salami suggested creating a single-chamber legislature by merging the Senate and House of Representatives and reducing the number of lawmakers.

He claimed that the nation’s resources are burdened by running both the Senate and the House of Representatives concurrently.

“Bi-cameral legislature is wasteful. We can merge the Senate and the House of Representatives to have a single house to ease the business of lawmaking and reduce the huge funds spent to maintain the two chambers that we have now.

“We can merge the two chambers and then reduce the number of lawmakers. The country spends a lot maintaining the 109 Senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives

“We are having challenges with the economy right now. We should be ready to make sacrifices and take bold steps. The bicameral legislature we are having,t o me, is frivolity”, he said

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