To address these structural flaws and improve governance in Nigeria, there is an urgent need for constitutional amendments that would allow for a fundamental reshaping of the national structure to create one that leaves Nigeria with presidents who gain enough votes to be legitimate and a devolution that allows for truly federal governance models.
The federal and state administrations ushered in via the recently held elections have been having their 100-day anniversaries. While the Lagos State government has tried to celebrate its controversial re-election with the launching of a Lagos Metro that took almost two decades to complete but has electric trains being pulled by a diesel engine painted to look like a metro train, it yet looked rather sophisticated in comparison to the endeavour of the Kano State Government, which recently approved a budget of ₦854 million for the first phase of the Auren Zaurawa — the Mass Wedding Initiative that offers financial assistance…