Opposition mounts as Nigeria’s President seeks to alter constitutional term limits

<p>Opposition against <a title="Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan proposes one-term limits" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14303055">President Goodluck Jonathan’s recent announcement of his plan to ask parliament to amend the constitution so that future federal and state executive office holders serve a single, longer term in office</a>, is growing as civil society and political parties come out strongly to condemn the move. The plan, if passed, will scrape the current two four-year term limits and replace it with a single [possibly] six-year term limit for both presidential and gubernatorial mandates, effective as of 2015.
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