Governor Aliyu Babangida Says: If You Cannot Lie, Get Out of Politics

The kind of things Nigerian politicians say leave you totally perplexed – OK! so that’s how the Governor of Niger state, Aliyu Babangida, recently made it clear that, LIES and POLITICS go hand in hand, stressing what a certain Rivers State governor said late last year, that there is no morality in politics. Aliyu Babangida, while inaugurating the PDP guber campaign committee in Minna, Niger state capital yesterday January 5th, said:

“If you cannot lie, get out of politics. Anything you are involved in has its own rule. You are in politics to win, win first and let other things follow. Don’t be the one crying louder; lest you will be the one ‎they will take to court. If you are talking of honesty or morals, go and become an Imam or pastor. Politics cannot be the way it used to be.
“The challenges are more now, the variables have changed, the issues that we are going to face in 2015 are different from the ones we faced in 1999 and we must bear this in mind. Our society is not as grateful as it used to be, the values and morals have gone down. If you want to win, use the modern morality. We have worked for the people. Politics is not about sadaka (giving alms), politics reminds people of what you have done. Go out and remind the people of what we have done.”

What do you say???