Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Omololu Toluwanimi Omololu Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 148 ISBN: 9783848408306
Описание
This book takes a look at the issues relating to the yearnings for stable federal system at the 1994/1995 constitutional conference. The conference was a response of the military government to the demands for the restructuring of the federal system with a view to stimulating stable polity. Deliberations at the conference clearly showed that the Nigerian polity, nay its federal structure lacked the requisite political strength capable of stimulating stability over a long time. The study discovered that centralisation of power engendered by prolonged impaired stable federal system. The Nigerian state stood on a political platform of ethnic hostility with a pronounced fear of domination. The study concludes that restructuring through devolution of powers to the component units remains a more veritable starting point to redefine the Nigerian federal system. The components units should be restructured to accommodate either the immediate post independence arrangement of three regional or...