Here’s an excerpt of an opinion piece I wrote last May:
| 1. Salaries and Allowances paid to all public office holders within the Legislative and Executive arm will be the same as that of the Federal Civil Service. |
| 2. Political campaigns can only be funded from: |
| – grants from the political parties to which the aspirant belongs. |
| – funds raised by the aspirants electoral campaign office directly from members of the public. |
| – the maximum amount a member of the public can donate directly to an electoral campaign office is N250,000. |
| – the maximum amount an individual official member of a political party can donate to the campaign fund of the party is N5,000,000. |
| – the maximum amount an official individual electoral political party aspirant can donate to the campaign fund of the party is N15,000,000. |
| – the maximum amount an institution can donate to a political party is N25,000,000. |
| – no foreign organisation can donate any funds to any political party or electoral campaign office of any political office aspirant. |
| – no foreign individual can donate any funds to any political party or electoral campaign office of any political office aspirant. |
| – every donation worth more than N250,000 to a political party or electoral campaign office must be declared and registered with INEC. |
| – within three months of the end of each general election, INEC is to publish on its website the list of donations registered with it. |
| 3. Members of the legislative arms should be permitted to hold jobs outside of their legislative roles provided that: |
| – such jobs do not, in addition, take up more than 25% of their statutory working hours; |
| – they declare how much was earned from all outside jobs; |
| – they declare how many hours they worked; |
| – they declare who paid them; |
| – such jobs do not necessarily need to relate to their political role. |
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