What has Politics got to do with the Economy?

Very little!
In the real sense of it,politics has very little to do with the economy.But considering the diversity of peoples running the countries of the world,in some cases like Nigeria's,economy has everything to do with politics!
You see,ideally,politics has to do with managing,organizing and running the affairs of the generality of the people in a country while economics is all about the economic activities of the citizens,it's all about what they produce and consume.So,ordinarily,politics involvement in economics (through government) is mainly an oversight thing,it's NEVER meant to be a very deep involvement...except,of course the communist and socialist mode of governance where the government is in charge of everything!
Having said that,I'll like to focus on the Nigeria's case,a country that practices the Capitalist system where winners take all!

Just after independence,Nigeria was doing pretty well economically,having inherited a robust economy from the whites.But,just a few years later,everything nose dived all because of the discovery of Oil in the Niger Delta region.What was meant to be an additional blessing became a curse upon us!
Nigeria gradually started to stray from Agriculture which was our main source of income during those days to concentrate only on oil.We,as a nation have STUPIDLY allowed our ever green non-stop money spinners of Agriculture to slip away for the easy money coming from the Niger Delta.In fact,the Head of States then was reported to have said that 'Money is not our problem,but,how to spend it!' Can you imagine?!
Because of the easy money and the lesser attention that's being paid to Agriculture,people started  moving into towns and cities where it's happening while Agriculture continued to suffer setbacks in the villages.This has been the case till date.

We are all still after the oil money,no one wants to work hard anymore,nobody likes to be called a farmer.Today, we import virtually everything especially food stuffs.We import frozen chickens,turkeys and fish like there's no tomorrow.There was a year when our import of fish was about 700 000 tons (1 ton = 1000kg! Guy,do the maths!!!). I learnt that we even import tooth pick and paper today.What a shame!
Since oil that now serves as our only major foreign exchange earner is government controlled it turns that whoever is the President becomes the sole determiner of our fate.
State governments depends heavily on federal allocation to pay their workers...the internal generated revenue is next to nothing in most states.In fact,except for Lagos state,I doubt if there's any other state that pay salaries without the Federal allocation.Should this be the case,I thought working means providing goods and services,how come,then,state governments can't pay their workers or are the states not paid for goods/services they render through their workers,where does the money go if they get paid?These are questions begging for answers especially now that the crude oil we so much depend on is no longer selling as high as it used to.
Just before Buhari's resumption to work at Aso Rock,I learnt that oil sold for about $120 but just a few weeks after his resumption, oil prices came crashing down to a very low level of only $30!That's about 75% fall! What this implies is that if we were sharing N120 Billion before the fall,we must now manage with just N30 Billion...all of us! Let me try to make it look simpler.

Mr Kamaldeen is a businessman with a very large family.Normally,he finds feeding his family and catering for their needs pretty easy because of his large in-flow of income.But suddenly,things went bad and sales went down so much so that even selling is almost like a loss.
After a month,the demand of the family gradually became so hard to meet that he sometimes yell at his wives and children when they refuse to manage the little he could offer!In your own opinion,what should Mr Kamaldeen do to satisfy his family? Unless his family understand his plight and bear with him,a huge crisis looms over which Mr Kamaldeen has no power to prevent!
That's the situation that President Buhari finds himself.Oil prices suddenly went down and the Dollar saw no other time to rise other than this same time Nigeria's income fell way below expectation.
The Solutions Economists and financial experts are giving is that he should simply move with the tide,devalue the Naira and dance to the Imperial tunes of the Oil Cabals just as Jonathan did.
But the man has a different idea,he chose to stand his ground as the Chief-in-Command of the Armed Forces and the Head of States of Nigeria to pave a new way out of the mess for Nigeria.All he asks of us is that we persevere with him for a while and that we too,should stop playing dumb in the Nigerian Project.
'Ask NOT what your country can do for you,but,what YOU can do for your country' - JFK
Oh! I love this quote from the late and formal president of the United States.It says it all...the solution to our national problems of today.
Everyone wants to be a politician no one wants to be the Farmer or the Teacher...everyone wants the easy money.We all want to be the President,the Governor,Local Government Chairman or any other political post holder not because we want to serve but because we want to be served!In any democracy,including ours,political holders are meant to serve us the civilians...they are not called servants for nothing you know ? They are so called because they are our servants!
I would be dwelling a little into that tomorrow God's willing,please do keep it date with me.One more thing,please don't just read,do share this message with your friends on social media.God Bless us All!
Ameen.