Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday,
disclosed that they (parties) make provision in
their budget estimates, money that will be used
to bribe officials of the Commission and Security
agents.
According to him, “Political parties budget to
bribe security and INEC officials. This is a very
serious challenge to our democracy.”
Jega also passed a damning verdict on the
financial and procedural accountability of some
parties which he described as deficient with “a
predeliction to cutting corners.”
The INEC chairman also called for further
electoral reforms ahead of the 2015 general
elections. This remarks were made by Jega while
speaking at a Roundtable Conference on Party
Politics in Nigeria and Lobbying the Lobbyist and
the Legislature, organised by the National
Institute for Legislative Studies, NILS, in Abuja.
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