The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has described electoral corruption as the worst form as it undermines the will of the people and invests power in illegitimate hands.
A government that pays its way into power is hardly expected to be accountable as its priority upon assumption of office would be how to recoup its investment. “That is the open sesame to corruption in public life, a phenomenon that has held us down as a nation”, he said.
Magu, who spoke through the Secretary of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede at the National Policy Dialogue on Eradicating Electoral Corruption (Vote-Buying) at the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria on Tuesday, described the timing of the dialogue as apt. He said the dialogue was critical to “our collective aspiration to clean up the institutions and process of election management for the good governance of our nation”.
