A Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Governance, Edoba Bright Omoregie, has advocated an urgent correction to
He warned that if the country continues to witness the kind of resistance to federalism reforms as experienced in the last few years, the risk of disintegration may escalate.
Omoregie who identified the principle of power-sharing, an incoherent system of federal solidarity and non-obligation to provide a minimum standard of living for citizens, etc, as major banes of Nigeria’s federal system, said the “adoption in the quest for federalism reforms in Nigeria would be realised if the current imbalance in the distribution of powers is reversed.”
“The 1999 Constitution institutes a federal system which denies the states their autonomy relative to the Federal Government. It is manifest in fiscal allocation and inter-government revenue relationship by which the states are denied direct and autonomous access to significant tax revenue sources.“State governments have also been denied autonomy in the horizontal organisation and management of their internal administration.
He further said a well-resourced expert-driven reform and constitution alteration of unsatisfactory aspects of Nigeria’s federal system, should be put in place.
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