It is believed that political problems are caused by the elected persons but from my own point of view the evil in politics is caused by the political godfathers and the electorate, not aspirants.
The machinery that gives opportunity to citizens to choose and elect who should govern them effectively has become business for the so-called political godfathers to choose illiterates as candidates so that they can be controlling them after winning the elections in order to be making money from them.
It is very unfair that our leaders are always taking decisions that could benefit only few persons instead of the general public and that clearly demonstrated that godfathers are influencing them (leaders).
This evil has eaten deep into our political system and it has provided a way for people to come into politics to embezzle funds, which are meant for the public and share with their political godfathers. Most of these godfathers if not all, are the people with questionable characters and I wonder why the public believes so much in them to vote the candidates presented to them by the so-called godfathers.
Well, because of the poverty in the land, voters are always ready to receive money from those evil men in our society in order to cast their vote for them.
Let me at this point advise that the ungodly act of bribing people before getting their votes should be addressed and henceforth, electorate should not accept any gift that would make them vote against their will.
Ikyobo Aondover,
Benue State University,
Makurdi.