Se Of money in pote, Y in pois. Kukah in Particular assey ; ‘0 Us “during the infamous Sap and ‘ecepted as part of the political proces, He also noted that SAP mad ‘made mon Some elites and they are the same People who wanted to use the money t th Adetula (2008) argued that ‘weak monitoring of the electoral Process, democracy. On the other hand, Sam and the politcal culture, Weak/non-existent legal and Jndicial femeworks, poverty, exclusion ae the root causes of the use of mo politics in Nigeria, Inbespor> \ Ahadsp Jalingo and Jeg, (2001) Posits that the recurring complaint against monetization of Nigeria's polities is closely povery oeletaraes, 4% 41% CS AeGrdtngrp Jega and Okechukwu, (2008) every political instability can be t the Vinked to the ilteraey and material id to socio- economic factors particularly poverty. Whereby Nigeria over 60% of the people live on less than US $2 a day, teracy is les than 60%, access to housing is next to nil, while people die from preventable diseases, therefore isa situation of abject poverty and in the absence of clear moral values, it becomes easy at elections to buy and sell votes or promote other forms of electoral abuses. 2.5 Consequences of Money Politics on Democracy As a result or in-faet that a substantial number of presidential election campaigns increasingly rely on media (especially television and radio). Political marketing, 1“