Money politics won’t work in 2019 – Getso

 

 

National chairman of the National Progressive Movement, Mustapha Bala Getso, has warned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition parties not to consider playing money politics in the forthcoming general elections in 2019.
The Kano State gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the NPM said the leading political parties, which are renowned for using money to secure votes, would be disappointed because the Nigerian electorate are no longer gullible.
“No, money politics won’t work. The people are wiser now. They have known the dirty antics of the present ruling party and the other main opposition that held the rein for years.
“The Nigerian politicians have failed the people. Yes, they had played money politics, had hoodwinked the electorate, manipulated them but this time around the table will change because the people have seen through the deceit of the ruling party and their ilk and are willing to take their destiny in their own hands by rejecting money politics”, he said.
The former member of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) regretted that older political parties have been in the habit of deceiving the people by resorting to religious and ethnic tendencies.
“When these parties to want to achieve selfish ends they resort to ethnicity and religion, which ordinarily should have no place in politics of nation building. Selfish politicians irrespective of tribe, language and faith had in the past deployed religion and our tribal differences to deadly advantage and the result has been huge division among the people”, Mustapha said stressing that this attitude must change if the nation is to experience real development.
“No, we can’t rule a country that way. There should be focus, national priority that is the focus of whichever political party forms government. What we have now in Nigeria is a situation where selfish politicians have exploited negatively the multicultural and language and even religious settings. And this is not a healthy development at all”.
According to him, the NPM will adopt a radical approach to governance if he emerges governor of Kano State noting that it has its position on restructuring, state police and resource generation and distribution that will be equitable for all Nigerians.

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