Nigeria has more than 200 million people, a huge road infrastructure to maintain or build, millions of job seekers, workers and students to take of, hundreds if not thousands of hospitals to provide for,
I mean , even ten terms would not be enough for one president to meet the demand that steams from the ever changing demanding needs in government and private services , not to count the strain Boko Haram and other terrorist group are putting the country through. Still, Nigerians agree that the presidential term should last only 4 years, renewable only once.
Do we see have much passion , unnecessary bickering , political unrest, that country delivered himself from ?
Moreover greedy and conniving politicians could well have managed to ask for a 7 -year presidential term " because the country is huge and the job tremendous " and no term limits.
Had the constitution been shaky ( in the sense of " vulnerable to illegal and illegitimate political ambitions" ) , instead of working , Nigerians would be demonstrating over the past three or four months in the streets to stop a president from amending a constitution ( on purpose to run for a third term ). There would certainly be unnecessary loss of lives with police and military men shooting at protestors. Of all this , nothing happened. The president is term-limited , he knows it, everybody knows it, and he abiding by this biding constitutional requirement.
It is fair enough to say " Thank you, Nigeria " !
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/africa/nigeria-presidential-poll-2023-intl-cmd/index.html