As Nigeria prepares for the general elections, various political parties have embarked on political campaigns in a country where there is a high level of tension amid insurgency and insecurity particularly in the North.
It is worthy of note that the current mood of disenchantment of most Nigerians towards the government of the day is not new in the nation’s history. What is paramount is a reassessment of certain beclouding parameters erroneously used in the past by the majority in making their choices at the polls, only to find out later that such parameters were wrong
Today, many Nigerians are saying that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is worse than preceding administrations. 
The 2015 electioneering campaigns are here and all the contending political parties and their representatives are canvassing for change while high hopes are building up again for the next dispensation. The same Nigerians, who have produced the past leaders, have not changed their orientation, value system and attitude towards nation-building.
The truth is that every society gets the leader it deserves. There is no one Nigerian leader that can singlehandedly deliver Nigeria from its current economic, social and political problems, as long as the followers remain the wrongly oriented populace that they have been over the years.
The parent who encourages his or her child to get involved in examination malpractices or advanced fee fraud (419) has to change for Nigeria to move forward. The belief that what you get from society is more important than what you give to it has to change. The civil servant who sits on a colleague’s promotion or retirement file in the office because of his refusal to bribe him has to change. The driver who stops his vehicle in the middle of the road to exchange pleasantries or make phone calls without considering other road users has to change. The clergyman who applauds the criminal in his church or mosque because of personal gains has to change. The trader or driver who inflates prices of commodities or fares suddenly to take undue advantage of an unfortunate customer’s situation must change. Owners of corporate organizations who connive with government officials to defraud Nigeria have to change. Lawyers who give bribes to court judges and judges who collect bribes to compromise the justice system need to change. Traditional rulers who accuse their subjects of being failures because they did not loot public treasury require change.The list is endless of categories of people who need to personally change to usher in the desired new Nigeria.
Nigeria as a country can only be delivered from its current social, political and economic mess when change comes. The change from the current status of the country can only come if individual Nigerians change from their negative beliefs, orientation and attitude. Until this happens, even the election of a Pope into Aso Rock will not make any difference.
We can only hope that few months after the February 2015 general elections, most Nigerians will not change their current song of change.

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/the-change-nigeria-needs/