The necessity of decentralisation/federalism/devolution of powers in Nigeria does not require a new constitution.
…we do not require an entirely new process of developing a truly Nigerian people’s constitution to unbundle the current exclusive legislative list and populate the concurrent list in favour of more legal, geographic, administrative, political and economic powers to the States, FCT and LGAs and also engender the confidence of Nigerians in democratic governance after about 23 years of operating the current military-drafted constitution.
Reform of Governance Structure for Decentralisation/Federalism; Economic Revolution and Security Restoration Final notes on decentralisation of governance structure: Constitutional democracy forbids that governance reforms are done without recourse to the constitution, which is “a set of rules and principles providing guidelines about how a State should run, how powers should be distributed, controlled, and what rights a citizen shall possess”.
The necessity of decentralisation/federalism/devolution of powers for economic revolution and security restoration in Nigeria does not require a new constitution that will completely displace the current military-drafted 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In other words, we do not require an entirely new process of developing a truly Nigerian people’s constitution to unbundle the current exclusive legislative list and populate the concurrent list in favour of more legal, geographic, administrative, political and economic powers to the States, FCT and LGAs and also engender the confidence of Nigerians in democratic governance after about 23 years of operating the current military-drafted constitution.