The pact of political corruption is the major encumbrance declines central part of democratic mechanisms that\nlead to economic meltdown and government failure in Nigeria. In essence, political corruption is the major spectrum\norchestrates the downward spiral of economy in Nigeria. This is avowed through former president Good luck Jonathan led\nadministration that designs counterfeit theory on democracy as such, democracy is a system of government structured\nby political cabal with the power of some people formed by the influential people to intimidate other people. This study\ndiscovered that the severity of political despicability in Nigeria has gone beyond control to have implicates three tiers\nof government with diversity of fraudulence and deceptive kleptocracy. The outcome of this paper highlights forms of\ncorruption abound through political godfatherism and political henchmen in Nigeria such as giving and receiving bribes,\nnepotistic factionalism, budget paddling, inflation of contracts and later abandoned without consequential fear, abuse\nof public property, pilfering of government fund into private accounts, misappropriation of allocation, money laundry by\npublic officers, as well as using proxy names to open account or buy opulent property. The manuscript demonstrates\nthat high scale corruption of our leader is but consider as harmful effects on economic and political development. The\npremise of this manuscript is to justify the mode of political conundrum in Nigeria with the non-violence and dynamic\nsystem of governing political affair according to religious perception. The study concludes on the hypothesis that political\ncorruption responsible for Nigeria underdevelopment and that politicians are to blame for the economic recession and\npoor performance of the Nigerian government at large.
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