CHANGE MUST COME FROM ALL NIGERIANS - Lauretta Onochie
In 1999, Nigeria returned to democratic rule. It was very surreal. It was a very happy feeling being counted as one from a democratic nation. And so Nigerians embraced democracy having been under military rule for many years. We had high hopes that within the shortest possible time, Nigeria will join the League of Nations in terms of democratic, economic, electoral and infrastructural reforms. Sixteen years down the line, Nigerians awoke from a great slumber to see that the sort of reforms brought by those who assumed power from 1999 to 2015 were not reforms Nigerians needed. What Nigerians needed were far removed from what was on the table. The CULTURE OF SHARING was firmly entrenched with the resultant consequence the if one was not "Connected", his family was left behind, in abject poverty. But one can only offer what they have and that was how PDP caged the nation in poverty, lawlessness and impunity. Everything was subject to manipulation. No processes wer