Monday, August 2, 2010

The Main Agenda for the Nigerian 2011 General Elections

Nigeria will hold general elections in 2011. It is extremely important for all stakeholders to constrain all political contestants to campaign on tangible issues.

Issues like education, power, transportation, housing, etc. should be brought to the front burner.

My recommendation, however, is that the issue of controlling corruption should be in the "frontest" burner.

The "Control of Corruption" (one of the dimensions of governance according to the World Bank), in my view is the foundation for a more proposperous Nigeria.

Consequently, one of the main questions that should be posed to all contestants in the Nigerian 2011 general elections is: what are you going to do to fight corruption if elected into office?