If you review the constitution you come to find the office of the presidency is absolutely useless in Nigeria.
Of course 'every nation' has some short of executive head and for this reason imagining a situtation without one
is difficult but i plead to all readers to think differently.

Development comes from the governors
Laws are passed by the house/senate
laws are reviewed and put in action by the judiciary

the executive 'leads' the military, but in all honesty with the insecurity in the nation, clearly the structure of our
security services is flawed. Have a politician lead your security makes security a political affair.
Arrests are avoided, allies aren't probed, ect. In fact it was written not too long ago that the primary relationship
the governors have with the presidency is a vote of confidence not to probe or investigate their lootings.


Also, it's implausible that a nation of 250 ethnicities whom are all nations in themselves will bow to one face without any sort of friction of an election in this scenario ever be cheap, honest, fair or efficient because there's too much at stake. It's also on that same token that we must understand in a federation, having a single person 'rule' creates a power struggle where federated units compromise and lose their independence and we have, due to the force of will of the presidency, an illusory federation that in all reality is a centrist oligarchy

The presidency and its affairs drains national treasuries, increases rivalry and tension between federated units, politicizes security, provides uneven political playing ground between opposition parties and the ruling party creating a system of criminal immunities for allies of the president, puts too much power at the center, and most importantly does nothing that the various units of the government (legislative, Judicial) can't do for it.



Yes no nation runs without a leading executive, but nigeria is as we can all see a unique case and needs unique solutions. The office of the presidency has been killing nigeria for half a century, how much longer will it take for us to see that it's an overwhelming negative on the nation.

Create means for the senate and house to be more efficient and rapid in action, and abolish the presidency. It will ALWAYS be the primary root of nigeria's problems.

First of all, i must commend you for having the guts to air such an unorthodox point of view. This happens to be my area of specialization, hence, i shall proceed to put you right.

The system of government you are suggesting can rightly be referred to as a sort of parliamentry government-one with an impotent executive and a powerful legislature. Nigeria practised this system between 1960 and 1966, but we abandoned it in the 1979 constitution, because of its numerous disadvantages. Such a goverment is always very slow in making decisions as even the most minute decisions are debated for weeks. Secondly, the armed forces will become unorganised, as their loyalty is not directed to one person, but hundreds of people!

Thirdly, there'll be no definite international representative of the state. Fourthly, there will be no separation of powers as the parliament will be supreme... Making and executing laws.

Simply put, your idea is quite agreeable when observed from a myopic perspective. But when its attendant deformities are illuminated, it becomes clear that it is impracticeable

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Ikengawo: If you review the constitution you come to find the office of the presidency is absolutely useless in Nigeria.
Of course 'every nation' has some short of executive head and for this reason imagining a situtation without one
is difficult but i plead to all readers to think differently.

Development comes from the governors
Laws are passed by the house/senate
laws are reviewed and put in action by the judiciary

the executive 'leads' the military, but in all honesty with the insecurity in the nation, clearly the structure of our
security services is flawed. Have a politician lead your security makes security a political affair.
Arrests are avoided, allies aren't probed, ect. In fact it was written not too long ago that the primary relationship
the governors have with the presidency is a vote of confidence not to probe or investigate their lootings.


Also, it's implausible that a nation of 250 ethnicities whom are all nations in themselves will bow to one face without any sort of friction of an election in this scenario ever be cheap, honest, fair or efficient because there's too much at stake. It's also on that same token that we must understand in a federation, having a single person 'rule' creates a power struggle where federated units compromise and lose their independence and we have, due to the force of will of the presidency, an illusory federation that in all reality is a centrist oligarchy

The presidency and its affairs drains national treasuries, increases rivalry and tension between federated units, politicizes security, provides uneven political playing ground between opposition parties and the ruling party creating a system of criminal immunities for allies of the president, puts too much power at the center, and most importantly does nothing that the various units of the government (legislative, Judicial) can't do for it.



Yes no nation runs without a leading executive, but nigeria is as we can all see a unique case and needs unique solutions. The office of the presidency has been killing nigeria for half a century, how much longer will it take for us to see that it's an overwhelming negative on the nation.

Create means for the senate and house to be more efficient and rapid in action, and abolish the presidency. It will ALWAYS be the primary root of nigeria's problems.

What's killing Nigeria is the present political structure that's not sustainable. The present constitution, as FRA Williams put, is a false document that tells lies about itself. We need to revamp the whole political structure, create a truly authentic Nigerian constitution not a dubious document skewed to serve the interests of retired generals that was imposed on the nation in 1999.

We profess to be practicing federalism while in reality what is in operation is unitary system of government.

My dear, i must posit that the issue of Nigeria having a foul federal structure is a wrong assertion. People just look at countries like the Us and see that their state legislatures make laws like anti-gay laws, e.T.C and they expect Nigerian states to wield such powers. When Nigerian states refuse to do so, its blamed on the constitution. You are forgetting that there are certain matters reserved for the federal govt. And there are matters reserved 4 d state government. But Nigerian state governments are largely dormant, not because the constitution wants them to be, but because they choose to be! We only need more decisiveness on the part of the federal government.