Nigeria politicians are widely considered a primary cause of the country's persistent crises, driven by poor leadership, endemic corruption, and a lack of accountability rather than a scarcity of resources. The ruling class often prioritizes personal gain over national development, using "stomach infrastructure" to influence voters.
Key issues regarding politicians and Nigeria's problem include:
-Failed leadership and corruptions: political leaders often fail to manage public funds, with corruption infiltrating all levels of government.
-Lack of Ideology: Many politicians switch parties for personal gain, lacking clear, long-term policy roadmaps for economic or social development.
-Stomach Infrastructure: Political elites exploit poverty by using food items and money to influence voter behavior, favoring incompetent leaders over reform minded ones.
-Weak institutions: Politicians often undermine democratic institutions for self-sealing, hindering the rule of laws.
Politicians are one of the major problems rocking the country and this has made us not to develop as other countries, a country that is enrich in mineral resources living and feeding from hand to mouth, especially what is called godfatherism is the key factors leading to such problems, a typical example of what is happening in Rivers State where Wike wants to be a demigod because he handpicked Siminalaye Fubara and made him Governor, he wants to be in charge of the affairs of the state and have a percentage of money he demands to be given on monthly basis, how will the state grow and free from problems when someone wants to still be in control because he brought a successor? This are the problems facing politics in Nigeria.
Once a politician who was doing poorly in office and wants to be probe and he defects to a ruling party he automatically becomes a saints and his sins are washed away, this people are just after personal riches and gains and when the time for election comes they travel to the rural areas and give the voters peanut to vote them in and afterwards disappears, they are not held accountable that's why they keep embezzling public funds.