*FROM CHIEF ABIODUN ALUKO; FORMER DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF EKITI STATE.*
“The problem is with Politics in Nigeria, not Politicians.
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Politics is made too attractive and too sumptuous and there is this issue of joblessness.
Nobody really wants to look for jobs anymore.
Even as a fresh Graduate or a School Certificate Holder, you can contest as a Councillor; and your basic salary per month as a Councillor is in the region of N500, 000.
Your Wife is entitled to allowances; you have a PA that gets allowances.
And at the end of the day, in a month, a Councillor’s take-home can be up to a Million Naira, which a Permanent Secretary, who has put 25 to 30 years into Service after a University Degree, does not earn.
When you make a feeble attempt to get a job and cannot get one, the next thing is you go into Politics.
It is only in Nigeria that somebody will introduce himself as a Politician as if that is his Profession or Career.
Because there is so much money in it, everybody wants to be a Politician.
Fortunately for them, the Nigerian financial system in the Public Service is so loose that Public Office Holders have unfettered access to Public Funds.
As a Local Government Chairman, you can call your Secretary or Treasurer that you need N1m for the weekend.
You now come back with some fake receipts for retirement on Monday.
As a Governor, you can ask for N100m from the Accountant General.
He dare not ask what you need it for.
The system is so loose that as a Graduate or a Professional, you toil day and night, but your Colleague, who has gone into Politics, will become a multi-Millionaire, building Mansions, riding Exotic Cars while you are in the rain and sun and you get peanuts for your efforts.
Ninety per cent of the people who are into Politics in Nigeria are there for the monetary gains, not to render service because most of them have nothing to render.
Somebody, who has never worked in his life either as an Employee or an Employer, what service can he render ?
*- Chief Abiodun Aluko. Former Deputy Governor Ekiti state*
*Me – _I think if Nigerians has any head to use in thinking, all what the man has submitted above should be the question of the week and issue to debate._*