By Abubakar Yunus
Young Progressive Party (YPP) candidate for Ifako-Ijaye Federal Constituency in Lagos State, Hon. Peter Folajimi Buraimoh has charged politicians jostling for political positions to ensure their campaigns focus on how to provide solutions to developmental issues.
Folajimi made the call in a statement, a copy of which was made available to newsmen in Abuja,on Wednesday.
He said there was political eclipse which had beclouded the nation’s democracy in the recent time.
According to him, majority of his colleagues do not base their campaigns on developmental issues but on frivolities.
“In the past, after getting people’s mandates and authority, people asses politicians’ performances by all their manifestos and analysis during the electioneering, but today everything has changed.
“Politicians are now turning the table and limiting it with the ideas of the cash carriers take it all.
“Most of them focus more on how much to spend on voters on election day than to engage the citizens on developmental issues and programmes,” he said.
Speaking further, Folajimi said that the country could only get good governance through debatable issues and analysis the politicians gave while campaigning to the people.
He also said that the foundation of democracy should not be on corruption, noting that when such happens, the outcome could not be detrimental to the country.
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