Federalism and Political Restructuring in Nigeria

Evidence is accumulated in support of the book's central thesis that autocratic rule is antipathetic to the sustenance of genuine federal practice, and that federal restructuring initiated under the tight control of repressive governments cannot but lead to a situation in which federalism is assaulted, if not dismantled. 

It is argued that, in such a context, the vending of a federal doctrine becomes more or less an exercise in the propagation of false consciousness in the service of power - portraying a picture of divided power to hide the reality of undivided power.

It concludes on an optimistic note expressed as a warning that a united federal democratic dispensation remains the best and most promising, though not an inevitable, political option for Nigeria.

The book should be of interest to students, academics, policy makers, politicians and all others interested in contemporary Nigerian politics.

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Editors:

Kunle Amuwo

Adigun Agbaje

Rotimi Suberu 

Georges Herault 

363 pages

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