INEC chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega yesterday said politicians engage in excessive use of money in the electoral process, describing this as an unhealthy and unlawful act that must be addressed ahead of 2015.
Jega, who spoke at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the Independent National Electoral Commission was evolving measures to curb money politics as part of its reforms.
“Obviously, it is unfortunate that in Nigeria there is a lot of use of money in politics,” he said.
“It is unhealthy, it is illegal and we have to do quite a lot to minimise the role of money in politics and, we in INEC, it’s is one of the reforms measures that we hope to introduce long before 2015,” he added.
Jega said that INEC intended to tackle extreme use of money by establishing a political monitoring department to observe party campaigns.
He said that the unit would also monitor financial contributions of individuals, organisations as well as advertorials of political parties.
The chairman said this was to ensure full conformity with the limits that had been established by law.
He added that most countries took the issue of the use of money in politics seriously, stressing that it was imperative that Nigeria did same.
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