Nigeria, June 28 -- The outcome of a public opinion survey strenuously conducted through the support of Ibrahim Mo Foundation in selected remote villages across 27 states of Nigeria, majority of those we interviewed opined that Nigerian political class since independence have been shortchanging the masses consciously and on whose back they rode to power, prominence and influence that has now become a stumbling block to development.

Most of the elderly amongst them opined that the only time ordinary Nigerians featured in the calculation of the political class was the brief period between 1952 and 1959, when the fear of the colonial power kept the then new inheritors on their toes.

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