POLITICAL BREADCRUMBING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Sustainable development goals requires constructive regeneration of political and attitudinal transformation. However, political bread crumbing has contributed in state failure and prevented the masses from enjoying the dividends of sustainable development unfortunately, political bread crumbing does not come without its consequences particularly for sustainable development. It is a breeding ground for corruption andmaladministration and keeps the people desensitized to pervasive underdevelopment.Thus, owing to the destructive capacity of political breadcrumbing particularly for sustainable development in Nigeria,the objective of this paper is to examine the causes of political bread crumbing .Qualitative technique was adopted and the findings from this paper reveals that political bread crumbing destroys the prospects of any nation to meet up with achieving the entire goals of sustainable development and this is so because the electoral process is often manipulated to the detriment of the voters who more often than not are already carried away by crumbs and so these manipulated elections often produce leaders who are not only disconnected from the yearnings and developmental goals of the nation, but are totally irresponsible to the public. It therefore concludes and recommends that, since political bread crumbing has become an obvious threat to the survival of sustainable development goals, it is important that legal frameworks should be established wherein the local governments in collaboration with traditional institutions and NGOs should be made to conduct monthly and annual seminars on political education and citizen enlightenment in ways that enhance sustainable development.