The African Democratic Congress says it is setting out to “redesign governance” in Nigeria by ending the culture of godfatherism, budget padding, and patronage-driven politics, pledging a new model built on transparency, innovation, and citizen participation.
Budget padding is a situation in which a budget is made bigger than the original estimates through an increase in the value of items or the introduction of new items into the budget.
Some civic groups in June condemned the National Assembly for allegedly inserting projects worth N10.96tn into the national budgets between 2021 and 2025.
In a Friday statement titled “No Godfathers, No Budget Padding: How ADC Plans to Redesign Governance,” the party said Nigerian politics has “for too long revolved around personalities rather than principles, and power has been used for patronage rather than progress.”