The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday lamented that the politics of 2015 had relegated governance and service delivery to the background.
Ekweremadu said this at an international experience sharing conference on Media and Elections organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists and international development partners under the auspices of the United Nations Development Programme in Abuja.
According to him, the 2015 election is a little less than two years away, but lamented that the politicking and political schemings had reached “feverish pitch.”
He said, “The nation is already caught in the political fireworks of 2015 and governance has taken the backstage because we have turned Nigeria into an election nation in perpetuity.”
Ekweremadu observed that under normal circumstances, what should follow a successful election was service delivery.
He argued that the media and members of the public should hold elected officials accountable on their campaign promises as soon as elections were over
Punch
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