House of Senate, Reps expensive to keep – Shekarau tells Tinubu

Left to me, we don’t need to have the two chambers, the two houses

“It’s costing the country. I agree, a democracy means getting as many involved as possible, but the way it is going on now, it’s almost 500 legislators nationwide; I don’t think we really need this much at the moment.”

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