Why Politicians Fail To Fulfill Their Campaign Promises –Masari

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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives and erstwhile Governor of Katsina State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari has lamented the yawning spread betwixt run promises by politicians and realities of governance connected the ground.

Delivering the Keynote Address astatine the 9th Annual Conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) successful Lagos, Masari, who spoke connected the theme: Reconciling Campaign Promises with Governance Realities: Challenges and Prospects, listed 4 conditions to span specified gaps successful the involvement of democracy.

To Masari, governmental actors indispensable run with responsibility, insisting that specified run promises should beryllium realistic outgo and achievable wrong the disposable resources.

“Unrealistic pledges made simply to seizure the temper of the electorate should beryllium challenged and exposed. Only past tin we statesman to elevate our governmental civilization and marque definite that the process justifies the end. Second, governance indispensable beryllium anchored connected beardown institutions. With susceptible institutions, policies tin beryllium implemented much consistently and transparently.”

According to him, the 3rd limb indispensable imbibe honorable connection with citizens by governmental leaders. He tasked leaders to explicate the trade-offs, wherefore definite promises whitethorn instrumentality longer, wherefore resources indispensable beryllium reallocated and however advancement volition beryllium measured.

“Fourth, citizens themselves, including civilian nine and the media, indispensable recognize realities and decently pass those realities successful summation to holding leaders accountable. They should way promises, and request transparency alternatively of creating sensational headlines to pull followers, particularly present that the fig of followers translates into monetary gain.”

Looking astatine the challenges earlier governmental leaders successful fulfilling run promises, the erstwhile Katsina State politician named constricted resources, competing demands and unexpected crises.

“Many manifestos are aspirational documents, not grounded successful the world of disposable resources oregon organization capacity. Fiscal constraints are besides a large factor. Campaign promises hinge connected the resources disposable to immoderate country. In galore African nations, and much specifically successful our case, budgets are inactive heavy babelike connected a azygous commodity: oil. Yet, arsenic we each know, the terms of lipid is beyond our control. It is volatile, shaped by planetary marketplace forces, geopolitical tensions, and different analyzable and unpredictable factors.”

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