Nigeria, June 9 -- There is a need for all political campaign finance regulatory agencies to deploy all relevant instruments of the law to effectively regulate expenditure by politicians and political parties during electioneering campaigns.

This, according to Human Rights Activist and Civic Participation Advocate, Umar Dan'Assabe Muhammed, will help address the challenges of corruption, self-aggrandisement, and greed by politicians while in public office.

Sections 88 to 90 of the Electoral Act 2022, provide for a threshold for spending for candidates during elections in Nigeria.

However, trends have shown that politicians far exceed those thresholds, resulting in their abandoning the people when they assume office, to recoup the outra...