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Friday, October 16, 2020

Zamfara And Nigeria At Crossroads

 By Yinka Odumakin

The great political philosopher and polemicist, Leon Trotsky, once talked of professor of Spring who was teaching the subject in a classroom for years. He came out one day and was face-to face with Spring but he denied it saying it must be some disorder in nature. 

           *President Buhari and Zamfara State Gov Bello Muhammad Matawalle

So it is with Nigeria that got its independence on a federal constitution with a very lean exclusive list. But the aberration of military rule with command and control bloated the exclusive list to give virtually everything to the centre stripping the federating units. The centre became too fat to be productive and the units too lean to have a healthy existence.