2016 Leaders Of Hope And Honour by by Austin Asadu

As we step into the New Year, it is pertinent to reflect on the key institutions and auspicious personalities that have come to define our democratic ideals and national aspirations as well as charting a road map that would signpost a more beneficial and progressive future for the millions of hopeful, anxious and toiling Nigerians that are impatient of reaping the much trumpeted dividends of democracy.
The National Assembly is one pivotal institution that is crucial to the delivery of democratic dividends and therefore deserving of special attention in order to unravel those individuals of destiny that have assisted tremendously in enabling the exercise of it’s constitutional duties of legislation, representation and over sighting of the nation’s sprawling ministries, departments and extra-ministerial agencies otherwise acronymed MDAs.
Earlier on, the Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki, the former Clerk to the National Assembly, Dr. Salisu Maikasuwa and the