In advanced democracies, it is commonplace to find that governors, in their political careers, usually pass through the Senate before taking a shot at the governorship office for good governance. Sadly, the reverse is the case in our country, where governors shortly before the expiration of their constitutional two terms of eight years still jostle for space in the Senate which they see as a safe haven and an escape route for likely misconduct which might have taken place while in office as state governors. It is high time the trend whereby serving governors partook in Senate primaries before bowing out of office without proper accountability for the public money put in their care on trust for the eight years period when they served as state governor. It would be recalled that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, recently bemoaned the situation whereby the infrastructure on the ground is not commensurate with the monthly allocations being received by state governors from Abuja and now that some of them are already nursing Senate ambition by participating in party primaries, when will they be made accountable for the people’s money which was put in their care for a period of eight years? Why the rush to the Senate immediately after serving as governors and not the other way round, a situation, which undoubtedly would pave the way for good governance at the state level? Smart governors indeed! Come 2015, will the electorate outsmart the smart by rejecting them at the poll so that the searchlight can be beamed on their stewardship by existing anti-corruption bodies in the country or will they take the systematic trend as a fait accompli where anything goes in our country under the guise of democratic impunity?
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:18:41 +0000
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