For, all over the country, there are frank discussions on the inevitability of the restructuring of a warped federation. They sum up their inanity by concluding that “Nigeria’s unity or sovereignty is not negotiable,” after all. The idea of state police, another example, is inherently implicit in the practice of a true federal system. The official opposition to the peaceful negotiation of Nigeria’s sovereignty or to the restructuring of its mode, is intellectually lazy, un-intelligible, ignorant and unpatriotic. During the oil boom years, the pomp and grandeur of the Nigerian state masked the enormous weaknesses of the political system.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2018 03:00 UTC