In economics,an independent population also refereed to as the workforce is seen as those who can fend for themselves, make life changing decisions and contribute their quota to the development of the society.

Those who are refereed to as working class or independent based on Nigerian standard as it differs from country to country falls within the age bracket of 18-65years.The same criteria is used by the USA.

Now,what this means is that anyone who has attained the rightful age of 18 in any of these countries has the full privilege given to him/her as a citizen but most importantly Is the fact that the person becomes a "master of his own life" and is bound to make his own "decisions".
In other words,as far as democracy is concerned,Nigeria is an adult.

as an adult,everything about our political system is to be decided by Nigerians devoid of any control. But what irks me is that after 18years of democracy,the military generals still call the shots,determining who gets what,when and how. Starting from the birth of our democracy,of all the viable and vibrant candidates in Nigeria,OBJ,a military general,was released to contest and eventually rule a country he once ruled some 20years back.

As if that wasn't enough,when the 2007 election came,despite the fact that Atiku who wasn't a military man wanted to contest,the same military generals rejected him for disobedience and instead chose Yardua who we all know never wanted to run for that office but anyways, he was selected to compensate the family for the unjust demise of his brother who was a military general.

Thereafter,this same process has continued and when GEJ went out of his way to disobey the military general,he eventually suffered a huge defeat from the messiah who would save the country from its problems,PMB,a military general too. Despite the fact that GEJ administration was involved in high scale corruption but that was the surface reason for the whole political brouhaha. His major crime was that he stopped doing the bidding of the general.

Now after 2015,PDP,been the opposition has managed to try get their affairs together. At least,they are planning a convention to elect a new chairman for the party. Thats not my problem. My problem is that these aspirants all went to seek the blessings of OBJ,IBB and ABUBAKAR,all military generals and to add salt to the whole injury,the PDP presidential aspirants still visited these same military generals for their blessings.Even GEJ asked Atiku to beg OBJ if he must clinch the parties ticket,thats completely insane and absurd.

Isn't it about time our Democratic political system should grow up and be the adult its supposed to be. We ought to transcend from a myopic political ideology where we believe these military generals got the yam and the knife and decide who they give it to. Its just not healthy for our nascent democracy. The military somewhat contributed 60% of Nigeria's generational economic problems.
Our new generation of leaders do not owe them this homage they enjoy and they must learn to do away with this political sycophancy. Individuals cannot be bigger than an entire country