A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Egbe Alatunto (The Reformers) has said that money politics was ruining the country, adding that when politicians spend billions of naira during elections, the first thing they do when they assume power is to recoup the money spent during polls.
Speaking at the seminar organised by the group, titled ''Implication of money on politics'' held at Mushin, Lagos yesterday, the Convener, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Debo Adeniran said: ''Politics in Nigeria is a game of life and death while election periods are those of lawlessness. At such periods, killing of political opponents and arson become a way of life and money controls the senses of security agencies and thus turn them into political war dogs.''
He said: ''Many Nigerians have fallen into the abyss arising from ignorance of what their rights are as voters and candidates to be voted for. They have no clue that they can make their community better and individually richer if they eschew corruption and insolence of politicians.
He added: “The dominant themes in Nigerian parties seem to be ethnicity, religion and money at the expense of the empowerment of the masses. What we have encountered so far is the resort to the politics of ''trial and error.”
By Adeniyi Adunola and Tolulope Okunlola
Speaking at the seminar organised by the group, titled ''Implication of money on politics'' held at Mushin, Lagos yesterday, the Convener, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Debo Adeniran said: ''Politics in Nigeria is a game of life and death while election periods are those of lawlessness. At such periods, killing of political opponents and arson become a way of life and money controls the senses of security agencies and thus turn them into political war dogs.''
He said: ''Many Nigerians have fallen into the abyss arising from ignorance of what their rights are as voters and candidates to be voted for. They have no clue that they can make their community better and individually richer if they eschew corruption and insolence of politicians.
He added: “The dominant themes in Nigerian parties seem to be ethnicity, religion and money at the expense of the empowerment of the masses. What we have encountered so far is the resort to the politics of ''trial and error.”
By Adeniyi Adunola and Tolulope Okunlola
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