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Sultan says money politics is responsible for corruption in Nigeria

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Sultan says money politics is responsible for corruption in Nigeria

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has drawn a link between money based politics and pervading corruption in the country.

According to the Sultan, who is also the President General of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, money-based politics was a major factor responsible for unprecedented corruption and bad governance in the country.

The monarch, stated this at the 23rd Ummah Convention, organised by the Ummah Movement in Abuja.

Abubakar said: “This is partly responsible for bad governance that has characterised our polity, subverting our development, perpetrating poverty and eliciting the unending social conflicts.

“This money-based politics will continue to fuel the unprecedented corruption we see in our society; as a result of these our pristine values as people have been supplanted and our future thrown into jeopardy.

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“All leaders, political, spiritual and traditional need to come together to salvage our polity from dangers that the current political culture poses. The consequences of ignoring these standards are already showing and we must not wait until the bubbles busts.”

Abubakar also insisted that the problems in the country started when traditional institutions became sidelined by key actors in politics, calling on people to speak out on the problems they faced because “when you know you have problems, the problems are half solved.

“When problems come, traditional rulers do not run away from the problems but political leaders run away. Let us sit down and face the problems squarely. The problems of this country started when traditional institutions were sidelined and kept aside.

“We speak for the progress of the country. We don’t criticize the government but we tell government what it has done right and what it has done wrong; we are part of the government.”

 

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