Reinventing Nigeria: The Plebistarian Option
Re-Inventing Nigeria presents a political analysis of the country, showing how to make Nigeria’s federation work. It proffers a democratic initiative to keep Nigeria together as one strong united federal republic, while providing a democratic model that other countries with similar multiethnic challenges can emulate.
The book focuses on how the Nigerian Federal Project can be restructured to make it more functional and service driven.
It begins with a historical review, concluding that the foundations of Nigeria were faulty from the start, with no agreement made towards nationhood by the federating units. Instead, Nigeria’s different ethnic nationalities held themselves in mutual suspicion, even in contempt, before independence.
Election Finance and Corruption in Nigeria: The Investment Theory Aprroach
Election Finance and Corruption in Nigeria discusses public sector corruption, a major bane of democracy, particularly in emerging democracies.
While the scourge of this cancer is being reasonably contained in most advanced democracies, it is spreading in emerging democracies. To say that public sector corruption is a serious threat to democracy in Third World countries is an understatement.
Using Nigeria as a case study, this book investigates why public sector corruption is on the rise in Third World countries. The electoral process is identified as the engine room of democracy. Likewise, funding the electoral process is recognized as the lynchpin of the electoral process itself.
Election Finance and Corruption in Nigeria: The Investment Theory Aprroach
Econocracy is the economic determination of political objectives. In other words, the economic needs of the people determine politics, not politics determining the economic needs of the people. This will imply that in a given political set up, the people should first identify their economic needs, which should in turn drive the political superstructure.
The approach of African nations to use politics to define their economic objectives. is flawed and has not worked. Since nations are considered developed or undeveloped by the standard of living or quality of life of the people, which is primarily an economic issue, the economic needs of the people should consequently determine what the political objectives of a nation should be.
