The series of meeting initiated by the Southern governors is a deft move with a potential to stem a vicious tide in the region.
These series of meeting initiated by the Southern governors, is a deft move with a potential to stem a vicious tide in a region that has become a hotbed of separatist movements. By coming together to improve on the political and economic fortunes of the people, the state chief executives are attempting to infuse hope into the forlorn of the South, telling them that Nigeria too will work for them.
Not long ago, 17 governors, representing all the states that make up Southern Nigeria, met in Asaba to discuss the way forward for a nation at war with itself. They deliberated on how to contain the burgeoning threats that armed bandits, killer herdsmen and marauding foreign savages pose to their region.
Those are the same issues that have attracted a lot of attention across the board for such a long time, yet it did not prevent Attorney General Malami and a section of the northern elite from crying blue murder when the governors decided that the time to take a stand is now. What has been the case all this while is that in the face of monumental security challenges facing the South and Nigeria in general, the governors have felt helpless and forlorn. Almost all of them are frustrated that they are designated the chief security officers of their individual states and yet the Police hierarchy look up to Abuja for direction and guidance in the face of the slightest security challenge.
Granted that Nigeria’s practice of pseudo-federalism continues to pose a huge administrative challenge, many of our State governors, however, went completely “AWOL” in discharging their constitutional duty. The few situations in which they love to bare their fangs, are in the fight against local government autonomy, as well as protecting the independence of the legislative branch in the States under their jurisdiction.
Every state in Nigeria has a security council, where the governor is the chair and members include the Commissioner of Police, Director of State Security Services , and all the military commanders in that state. There is also the Nigerian Police Council, a 39-member body, headed by the President as the Chairman, whereas the 36 state governors are members, as well as the Inspector General of Police and the Chairman of the Police Service Commission.
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