Between dysfunctional federalism and Sanwo-Olu/cop faceoff - Punch Newspapers

More than ever recent happenings within our socio-political settings in Nigeria keep driving home the fact that our nation Nigeria only pays lip service to the practice of federalism as a nation state.

While many Nigerians have come forward to utterly condemn this unwholesome act, we need to commend the calmness and nobility with which the governor handled the entire discomforting saga. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu here again clearly displayed his innate highly cultured nature of peace and stillness even at the height of provocation and moral assault.

The late ex-US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, once said, “One of the most alluring things about power is having it but yet exercising great restraint by not using it.” It is an arrangement which compels an elected governor of a state with the mandate of his people to be subjected to and seek clarification from extraneous bodies or authorities on security issues in his own area of jurisdiction. This political anomaly and constitutional incongruity is strange in a modern democracy.

If the purported chief security officer of the states of a federation requires clearance from the office of the IG on matters within their areas of Jurisdictions, then we must readjust our reasoning faculties to ask the necessary questions about who truly is in charge of the states security architecture.

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While state police, restructuring and true federalism are worthy ideas urgently needed to move Nigeria forward, the shameful act of Sanwo-Olu in preventing the execution of a Supreme Court judgement cannot be good material for the campaign. It may be counterproductive.

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