Lysandre:


You don't understand anything about structural organization. The structure maximizes results even if the people's performance doesn't improve. BTW behaviour will change, and I will give you a simple example; once you move resource control to the states you will have revolutionized the economic options states have, even if it is driven by greed some states will exploit some of those resources. Restructuring will allow us to move from one oil revenue stream to at least 2. Even if only one state begins to exploit local mineral resources that is more money and prosperity(there is no way the politicians will steal literally 100% of what is generated, the same way they don't with oil). So even if Nigeria remains exactly as corrupt by simple virtue of restructuring there will be noticeable improvement.



I don't understand people like this, if you think that way about Nigerians then surely you must think there is no hope, why then do you even bother discussing our politics?

A system is only as good as those who practice it whether democracy, communism, socialism, true federalism etc.I have been in this country long enough to understand the psyche of the average Nigerian.
Many years ago one of my lecturers then in the university said why is it that any system that works well in other countries tends to fail when practiced here even from the first day and I found out the reason. It's us the people. Something is fundamentally wrong with our foundation and for the past 64 yrs we have been trying to patch it but the more we try the more failures we are recording.
We practiced the parliamentary system it failed we went so many years with military rule then back to presidential system now we are talking about going back to parliamentary system but truth is if we don't change our corrupt ways no system will ever function as intended.
We saw how inec raised our hopes about a free and fair election last year only for the same inec to.muddle up their own laws and promises they made before the election. So hope you understand what I am saying.

themanderon:


A system is only as good as those who practice it

This is entirely untrue. The entire purpose of systems is to account for human, logistical, or otherwise shortcomings. Every community has every kind of person; patient, impatient, evil, good, smart, stupid, and everything in between. The kinds of shortcomings you account for are what determine which among those people you get as leaders.

For example: If you have a school where people are allowed to choose their class and there's a class where they dash students pass marks you will find all the lazy and useless students thriving there. Why can't you guys see that by funding states using money they don't generate internally you have created a system that allows unproductive people to thrive in state government? If you change the system you change the leaders.

themanderon:


Many years ago one of my lecturers then in the university said why is it that any system that works well in other countries tends to fail when practiced here

The answer to this question is that it has never been practiced here. You just created nonsense and packaged it to look like that system that works elsewhere. All prosperous democracies have local government autonomy because their political system is bottom-up and autonomous communities are deemed essential, your's is top-down and by the time you get to local governments, they exist in name only. If those people are right that empowered local government is vital then this change alone has doomed most African countries that set up with it to failure. Many Western unitary states even have regions and local governments with more autonomy than our states do, and they do not rely on central governments for their funding. Their primary sources of funding are sourced locally by themselves. Nigeria's political system is as far away from liberal democracy as it gets.

You cannot take something and change foundational structures in that thing and claim that the thing didn't work for you after your modified nonsense fails. That makes no sense, the problem is the changes you made and the appropriate next move is to return the thing to factory settings and see what changes, hence restructuring.

themanderon:


We practiced the parliamentary system it failed

Tell us the metrics you are using to judge the First Republic as a failure other than someone with a gun decided it failed in under 3 years so he could justify seizing power.

Go and read about the Continental Congress, 1774–1781. That is America's first republic. It failed too because people were misbehaving. They understood the system is what counts, they changed it, and the rest is history. That is strong evidence right there. Aldo go and read about how Napoleon was so great in battle and they will tell you when the armies started to get really large it was the structural organization of his armies that usually made the difference.

The most important variable in the performance of large numbers of people is how they are organized. Thousands of years of evidence have shown this. The root cause of Africa's failure is thinking organization is not that important, something you are also guilty of.

themanderon:


A system is only as good as those who practice it whether democracy, communism, socialism, true federalism etc.I have been in this country long enough to understand the psyche of the average Nigerian.
Many years ago one of my lecturers then in the university said why is it that any system that works well in other countries tends to fail when practiced here even from the first day and I found out the reason. It's us the people. Something is fundamentally wrong with our foundation and for the past 64 yrs we have been trying to patch it but the more we try the more failures we are recording.
We practiced the parliamentary system it failed we went so many years with military rule then back to presidential system now we are talking about going back to parliamentary system but truth is if we don't change our corrupt ways no system will ever function as intended.
We saw how inec raised our hopes about a free and fair election last year only for the same inec to.muddle up their own laws and promises they made before the election. So hope you understand what I am saying.

Check it out here! Total Restructuring is what we need in Nigeria. And that's the only way out.
https://politicsnigeria.com/latest-edition-restructuring-nigeria-by-wale-olagunju-prophet/