The present 36 states in Nigeria are all welfare states that depend 100% on the federal purse in Abuja to make a daily living or survival. They are not economically viable, a conduit for debt creation, treasury looting and the massive resource mismanagement. Nigerians are worse off today under these 36 federating units than under the old four regions at her independence in 1960. The only time in the history of independent Nigeria to date that the real human and infrastructural developments were visible were in the days of those four regional governments (North, West, Mid-West and East).
Under these four regional governments, agriculture was viable and was the number one priority, education was quality and highly accessible to all, health care was working and affordable, social services were available, civil service was thriving, exportation of cash crops were the order of the day, scholarships and grants were made available to students for higher education locally and abroad, farmers had access to loans, civil servants had access to housing and car loans, there was food security and international tourism was booming. The regions generated their own incomes, paid their workers on time, were debt free, economically viable and built those modern infrastructures #BackToRegionalismAndNotToStateCreation
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