Ex-YCE scribe urges govts to tackle poverty, money politics

Elder statesman and former Secretary General of the Yoruba Council of Elders, Dr Kunle Olajide, has charged the federal and state governments to be deliberate in efforts to tackle poverty plaguing the majority of Nigerians. Olajide, who said moneybag politics, vote selling and vote-buying in the country’s political arena were functions of the deep-seated poverty

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