Former Presidential candidate cautions politicians against commercializing politics

Date: 2017-05-14

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been urged to improve on the past elections held in the country by conducting a free , fair and acceptable polls in future exercises.

The Presidential candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) during the 2015 presidential election , Mr Rafiu Salau gave the advise in Ilorin , the KWARA state capital while answering questions on a Radio KWARA personality interview programme ,Playing Host.

Mr Salau noted that the past leadership of INEC conducted an impressive election with the use of card reader and stressed the need for more improvement in the nation's electoral process as being practiced in developed countries .

He commended the initiative of INEC for the timely release of the election time table adding that it would go along way to allow political parties and their candidates to plan ahead for future elections and also supported the idea of an independent candidacy.

Mr Salau who is currently the National Chairman of the National Progressive Council for Advanced Grassroots ( NPCAG) disclosed that the newly formed political party which is undergoing registration with INEC has the manifesto, philosophy and political agenda of past founding fathers of the nation's democracy such as the likes of Sarduana, Tafabalewa, Awolowo and Azikiwe and therefore urged Nigerians to register with the party online.

The former presidential candidate cautioned Nigerian politicians against commercializing politics or seeing politics as a money spinning venture but rather, see it as an avenue to better the living standard of the less privileged In the society.

Mr Salau praised the efforts of President Muhammadu BUHARI for his government's determined efforts to rid the country of corruption and corrupt people reiterating that no nation can progress or develop no matter the economic and human resources of that nation when the citizens or leaders are enveloped in corruption.

He attributed the present recession and unemployment the nation is experiencing to the rate of corruption the nation witnessed during the past administrations in the country and described President BUHARI as a honest and sincere leader who is determined to remove the country from her present economic predicament .

The former presidential candidate who also contested the governorship election with the KWARA State governor , Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed during the 2011 governorship race, commended the achievements so far recorded by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state more so in terms of revenue generation and infrastructural development .

 

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