WHEN OUR PEOPLE ARE READY FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE, THEY WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO
The Alliance For New Nigeria Political Party’s 2019 governorship candidate in Ogun State, Mr. Ademola Ogunbanjo has x-rayed the issues that are affecting good governance and failure of the electoral process in Nigeria.
In this chat, Ogunbanjo said two factors responsible for the failure of good governance in Nigeria and he named them as INEC and Politicians.
He argued that the two things are responsible for vote buying in an election process which can be solved if given attention, saying INEC should do its job by enforcing the law that against vote buying by monitoring electoral process to the full length, any party that is found guilty should be disqualified.
Ademola said, “If we politicians are ready to serve the masses, we should make decisions that nobody will buy votes from the electorate, if there is nobody offering cash, there would be nobody asking for cash. If our people discovered that they’re wouldn’t be cash at any polling booth, some will stay home and bother not to vote, some will come out to see whether it’s real, some will go home, while some will stay to vote for the candidate of their choice.
“Nigerians need to recognise that their votes matter, some political class are not ready to adapt, some are too greedy and ambitious for their personal interest, its their personal agenda to perpetuate the power and loot the treasury. Nigeria as a nation is not dealing with the problem around us, issues around the development and growth with the advancement of the people, where is our future with this? We have laws that can govern this nation, but when there is no enforcement, no order, law itself crumbles, when there is law and you enforce the law, there would be order, in the country.
“If nobody is offering cash, nobody will be asking for it, don’t offer cash in 2019, don’t offer cash in 2023, nobody will expect the cash in 2027. The issue with the nation is not our broken infrastructure, it’s a matter of broken value system, the kind of governance we need is not only one that can fix infrastructure, but leaders with God minded hearts.
“Look around you, the level of depression and hopelessness is mind-boggling, the greed, people come to polling booths and ask where ‘are we voting’?, where are we receiving money?’ If you tell them there is no money, they will tell you ‘no voting’ and at the end, they will be clamouring for good governance, it’s not possible. I have discovered that where they expect money, they forget good governance, they believe that when you get there, you wouldn’t deliver to them, their slogan lies on ‘give me mine now’. My question is, is N1,000 your worth? Is my entitlement N1,000 over a period of 4 years? As long as we come out and demand for money on our election day, we are killing our future gradually”, Ogunbanjo concluded.
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