By Charles Okoh
“I cannot
say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must
change if they are to get better.” – Georg C.
Lichtenburg
It is no longer debatable that the only problem keeping this nation down is the problem of fixing the governance jigsaw. We have been held down by the fact that rather than a democracy where the wishes of the people reign supreme; we have practiced neo-feudalism where a few people lord it over the rest of us and dictate who gets what or into any office in the land.
This has never been as bad and brazen since independence as they
have been since the turn of the fourth republic in 1999.The result being that
there has been a steady and ever-increasing level of apathy towards elections
in the country.
For instance, in the 2019 presidential elections that secured President Muhammadu Buhari, his second term, only 34.75 percent of registered voters actually voted in elections, according data released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
