{"id":47634,"date":"2018-09-30T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=47634"},"modified":"2018-09-30T08:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T07:41:55","slug":"sultan-reveals-real-reason-behind-corruption-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=47634","title":{"rendered":"Sultan reveals real reason behind corruption in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, said on Saturday, identified money based politics as a major factor responsible for unprecedented corruption and bad governance in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The monarch, who doubles as the President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), made the assertion at the 23rd Ummah Convention, organised by the Ummah Movement, in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The theme of the convention was, \u201cThe Muslim Voice on Good Governance in Nigeria\u201d, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

He regretted that the nation\u2019s political culture had deteriorated and become increasingly mercantile, where money becomes everything, saying \u201cwe cannot allow full reins to money politics and expect corruption to go away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is partly responsible for bad governance that has characterised our polity, subverting our development, perpetrating poverty and eliciting the unending social conflicts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis money based politics will continue to fuel the unprecedented corruption we see in our society; as a result of these our pristine values as people have been supplanted and our future thrown into jeopardy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll leaders, political, spiritual and traditional need to come together to salvage our polity from dangers that the current political culture poses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe consequences of ignoring these standards are already showing and we must not wait until the bubbles busts,\u201d Abubakar said.<\/p>\n

The Sultan admonished leaders at all levels to take issues of leadership seriously, saying \u201cwe cannot ignore centuries old wisdom which places high premium on leadership and places criteria for shouldering responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that in Islam, leadership was fundamental and it was bestowed at every level as a trust from Allah and for which Allah would hold those entrusted to account.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, said on Saturday, identified money based politics as a major factor responsible for unprecedented corruption and bad governance in Nigeria. The monarch, who doubles as the President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), made the assertion at the 23rd Ummah Convention, organised by the Ummah Movement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2677],"tags":[566,243],"class_list":["post-47634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-corruption","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}