Lite Control Center will not start

[mzito59]

The Lite Control Center will no longer start on my machine. 
This is a new issue and the control center has worked for me in the past. 
I tried reinstalling through synaptic with no success. 

When run in terminal I get the following message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/litecc/litecenter.py", line 11, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk as gtk
ImportError: No module named 'gi'

Did I accidentally remove a gtk lib? Which one?  How to restore it?

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Michael

Lenovo x140e
8gb Ram
LL 2.8