Balarabe Musa, a Second Republic governor of old Kaduna State, has disclosed how much the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would spend to manipulate the forthcoming presidential election.
Musa claimed that both APC and PDP would spend up to N500bn to win the presidency.
Speaking
with Tribune, the former governor declared that votes of Nigerians
won’t count during the forthcoming general elections.
Musa
said the elections would be rigged in favour of those with money,
because the deciding factor in politics and election in Nigeria is what
he termed “money power.”
He said: “Anything can happen in
Nigeria, but one thing is that people should not fool themselves that
the election will be free, fair and transparent and lead to a legitimate
government in Nigeria. The conditions for such do not exist.
“However,
an attempt will be made, yes, but there will not be free, fair and
transparent election leading to a legitimate government. The election
will be manipulated; it will be rigged in favour of those who have
money, because the deciding factor in politics and election in Nigeria
now is money power. In particular, stolen money power.
“Conservatively,
you cannot even have a chance of winning a governorship election in
Nigeria unless you can spend at least half a billion Naira. In the case
of presidential election, you have to spend anything from N3 billion to
N5 billion.
“In fact, for the 2019 elections, at this level of
degeneration in Nigeria, the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidates will spend up to
N500 billion to win the Presidency. They will virtually buy the votes
and those who will manage to organise the campaign, they will also buy
them.
“Of course, the votes will not count. Votes never count in
Nigeria, except marginally. The votes have never counted in the history
of Nigeria, though some were better than the others.”
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