As rivers people joined the rest of the nation to celebrate her 58th year Independence Anniversary, a political analyst has stated that there is nothing to celebrate since Nigeria as a country has not made any significant socio-political progress since gaining independence in 1960.
An associate professor in the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Dr Kenneth Nweke who disclosed this while fielding questions from our reporter Tina Stephen, said there is a failure of both political leadership and followership.
According to him, the electorates have remained docile in questioning the recklessness in governance, adding that the masses are only interested in the paltry handouts given to them during elections.
He urged the people to wake up to the realization of redirecting the leadership of the nation.
“Even if independence is to be celebrated, to me there is nothing so exciting about it because successive political leadership in the country have not been able to address the essence of government. followership needs to understand the fact that sovereignty actually belongs to the people.
“The people have to understand that there are political injustices in the country. If we continue to sell our consciences in order to give our mandates to the political leadership, the future of Nigeria is mortgaged.
“It’s important to begin to reaccess those who seek for political power in this country and know those who actually are genuinely committed to the course of emancipating the nation from long years of neglect‘’
He called on the present administration to tackle the issue of corruption and high rate of poverty across the nation.
“A lot needs to be done in terms of addressing the problems of Nigeria as a nation. The current political leadership in the country should demonstrate strong will in tackling the challenge of corruption, address urgently the decay in infrastructure, high rate of poverty, lack of basic amenities and heighten security in Nigeria.
“If we can address these issues as a nation, then we are closer to closing up the problems”
