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A Breach of Federating Units’ Sovereignty in Nigeria: the place of social science paradigms
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Federalism, federating units, restructuring, environmental possibilism and determinism
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Abstract The dysfunctional lop-sidedness of Nigeria's federal system from the amalgamation regime appears to be of the main banes of Nigeria's underdevelopment socially, economically and politically. Nigeria was previously described as a geographical expression in 1947 for example after forcefully coerced autonomous nations of diverse historically, culturally, politically, and religiously by the British colonial government adopted a federal system of government. Federalism is all about the power-sharing of governmental functions between the central and the federating states. In the formation of a federal system, the federating states existed first before the central government. The purpose of forming a federal system is to accommodate the federating units of a union in the decision-making process entrenched in the nation's constitutional frameworks. However, the relationship between the central and federating units is complex and most often subject to infractions of the union agreement. This article aims to examine the rationale for the Nigeria's Federalism and the reasons why citizens are clamouring for restructuring of the political system. In addition to this, the article objectives are to review restructuring in a proper context and what to be restructured, to assess the extent to which clamouring for restructuring of federal system has been carried out at a particular period and to identify how to approach restructuring in a complex society such as Nigeria. Then the knotty question remains, what is restructuring in a proper context, what is to be restructured, its implications to the public, what has caused bridge of constitution in Nigeria and the place of environmental possibilism and determinism. The researchers applied both secondary and primary methods of data collections. We have equally used semi structured interviews tied with relevant theoretical frameworks to support our assertions and the main findings in particular. The article argues that restructuring Nigeria's federalism does not translate alone to good governance, accountability, and political solutions to the huge national present challenges. The key finding shows that there is no true federalism in Nigeria as too much power revolves at the central mainly and this has affected the nation politically, socially, economically, morally and otherwise. Based on the key finding, the article suggests that Nigeria as a country should learn from other countries such as United States of America, where Counties (that is Local Government Authorities) are given power to operate legally, politically, and economically. This is necessary to avert the on-going Russia and Ukraine dilemma in Nigeria. The recent development in Nigeria is acknowledged where Supreme Court had ruled in favour of local authorities to receive their monthly allocations directly from the Federation account, but this does reflect complete sovereignty, as true federalism is more beyond mere receiving monthly allocations directly from federation account rather the role of Local Governments should be clearly defined.
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Dr. Lawal Akeem Morounkeji & Sule Ademola Salawu-Adeitan (May-2025). A Breach of Federating Units’ Sovereignty in Nigeria: the place of social science paradigms . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 10(5), f366-f377. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2505547.pdf
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Volume 10 Issue 5, May-2025
Pages : f366-f377
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Research Area: Social Science All
Author Type: Foreign Author
Country: Oron, AkwaIbom State, Nigeria
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