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Lawyers Seek Review Of Political Campaign Expenditure

Constitutional lawyers have called for a review and an enforcement of a ceiling on political campaign expenditure, ahead of the 2019 general elections. The legal … Continue reading Lawyers Seek Review Of Political Campaign Expenditure


Lawyers Seek Review Of Political Campaign Expenditure
Professor ABC Nwosu

Constitutional lawyers have called for a review and an enforcement of a ceiling on political campaign expenditure, ahead of the 2019 general elections.

The legal practitioners made the call in Abuja at a colloquium convened by the former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Professor Epiphany Azinge.

“It is in our books that political parties are not to spend large sums of money, it is even pegged. But it has never been observed,” said Professor ABC Nwosu, a former political adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The Lead Director at the Centre for Social Justice, Eze Onyekpere, on his part decried the role of money in the nation’s politics.

“We should be in a position to promote popular participation where everybody should be encouraged to contribute to the finances of political parties, and also determine what happens in parties,” he noted.

Other lawyers at the meeting expressed displeasure over the deployment of money to win elections.

They also stressed the need for the establishment of an agency to monitor the campaign expenditure of political parties.