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Saturday 6 January 2018

The View From The LEAD; There is now growing desire for regime change in Nigeria


Naturally when things remain increasingly very difficult, people will start asking important questions. Darkness will never overcome light no matter how how long you enslave the people. The truth is that Nigeria is a country full of talented people but struggling with the many years of devastation caused by militarism.

Today people are now tired of blame game. The change they have expected has failed to materialise. Till date the country is still struggling with the challenges of inclusiveness, infrastructural deficit and improved public services. The government is above the law of the land and chooses the law at will.

The leadership promised them restructuring but now believes there is nothing wrong with the current political structure, which many seems to believe its long overdue for restructuring. Youth unemployment is the highest of any government in history. More than 26% of the young population are unemployed and the President just advised unemployed youths 'not to just sit down and wait for employment from the government or organised private sector'.,whereas priviledged individuals are regularly getting jobs in choice areas . There is limited entrepreneurship support often characterised by beuracracy and political patronage.

Education and Medical tourism still remains a prerogative of the elites. Essential Public services including infrastructure is politicised with more partonage to a particular ethnic group. The country faces prolonged fuel crisis in the future despite gains in global oil prices, largely because of oil blocks in the hands of the few and continued government  monopoly of the oil industry , reliance on imports of petroleum products,  inability to build and improve domestic refineries. In some states wages and pensions are not paid and jobs are not even on the table.

The government's controversial economic policy has failed to adequately improve the lives of ordinary people rather food prices have remained on the increase. Most Importers are now out of job. There is widespread dissent and opposition clampdown using the government controlled anti-graft agency- EFCC and special secret police.

Security remains a huge challenge . There is increased activities of Boko-Haram terrorists in the North-East despite government's claim of defeat and horroffic activities of the Fulani herdsmen invading communities,raping women and children, destroying lives and properties threaetning  agriculture, food security .

 People are now fed up with the current politics of division, incompetence and dictatorial tendencies of the government, but, they are divided about trusting the opposition party . The dilemma is that any future leader must have the support of the two leading political parties to succeed. This is the hard task that await Nigerians come 2019 when the embark on the next presidential elections to choose their next President.

The remarkable thing is that the yearnings for a change of regime remains very paramount and imminent, despite self- endorsement and continued manipulations of the citizens.

Uche Okeke is the Founder of The LEAD Project Foundation.

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