Dividends of Democracy:
Dividends of democracy are the tangible and intangible benefits that citizens experience from a democratic system of governance, often including improved human rights, access to public services like education and health care, economic stability and productivity, a strengthened rule of law, and the empowerment of people through participation and accountability.
Onyeama Augustine the Coordinator of Club 17 Peace Initiative stated that he didn’t believe that the coalition had anything new to offer Nigerians, as all of the coalition members were former government officials who failed to provide good leadership and dividends of democracy to Nigerians during their time in office.
According to him, Nigerians today will not experience hardship if they (coalition) had leadership that we could look to and say these leaders did well for Nigeria.
“Nigerians today will not be saying that this country is a failed nation, but the reason why they are saying that Nigeria is a failed nation is because these leaders all failed,” he said.
“So, what are they trying to do? Which nation are they trying to rebuild? Nation that they destroyed? Absolutely not! These leaders are people who cannot stay outside of political office, who don’t have anything that they do for a living, and the only thing they need to do is to come back to political office so that they can start feathering their nest again and taking care of their friends and family,” he added.
“We want Nigerians to get to 2027 and ask themselves, has this coalition (ADC) leaders improved our lives or made our lives worse during their reign in office?… So we want a situation where people want a change, they can look back and see coalition (ADC) leaders as a bad alternative to Nigerians he added.
