Tinubu’s regional federalism, by Suleiman A. Suleiman
The political behaviour of the South-west within the Nigerian federation has always mirrored that position of consolidating the regions in relation to the federal state at the centre.
Obasanjo sought to drag the South-west into mainstream federal politics, which Tinubu then resisted.
Let’s call this logic regional federalism, by which I mean a progressive attempt to regionalize federal power and ultimately strengthen the regions against the federal centre.
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