A former Minister of Interior,  Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday backed calls for Nigeria”s return to the parliamentary system of government.

He spoke at a National Dialogue on Home-Grown Parliamentary System in Abuja.

A group of 60 lawmakers in the House of Representatives in February sponsored a bill on the return of the country to parliamentary system of government jettisoned after the collapse of the First Republic in 1966.

At the programme. the former Osun State governor insisted that the parliamentary system is best suited for a country like Nigeria.

Aregbesola said: “If you go on believing that an individual, no matter how beautiful, no matter how good, could have the capacity to govern 120 million people all alone without checks, we are joking. So, by that consideration alone, I am opposed to executive system of government.

“I believe the collective arrangement which the parliamentary system guarantees is best for a nation like Nigeria if indeed we are committed to advancing the interest of the large population and mass of our people.”