‘Nigeria is gradually drifting into plutocracy’
Uche Chukwumerije, a senator and former
information minister, said in Ohafia, Abia State, that the cost of the
election on aspirants was assuming an alarming dimension.
“I have said it before and I am
reiterating it again. The cost of election on aspirants must be
addressed if our democracy must remain relevant. No meaningful election
and democracy can stand if the aspirant cannot bear the cost of
presenting himself and contesting the poll,” he said.
Mr. Chukwumerije, who was speaking after winning the Abia PDP
senatorial primaries, noted that no poor man can contest election in the
country.
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