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| Fiscal Federalism and Ethnic Nationalism Agitations in Nigeria, 2011-2017 |
Charles Arinze Obiora PhD, Onwunyi, Ugochukwu Mmaduabuchi, Odikpo Emeka
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Abstract:
The issue of fiscal federalism and the management of the country's resources has been a complex one among the federating multi-ethnic nations within the Nigerian federation. The crux of Nigeria’s problems lies in her federating arrangement which started in 1954 till date and has culminated in poor fiscal arrangement, disparity in the sharing of resources among the local, state and federal government, minority domination, and agitation for resource control. This paper attempts to situate the prevalence of ethnic nationalism agitations in Nigeria on her practice of fiscal federalism. This paper is descriptive in nature as data collection were based on secondary sources while the theory of relative deprivation were combined with the “greed versus grievance” theory was employed as its analytic tool. The paper found out that the continuous ill fit resource allocation formula in Nigeria have continued to breed ethnic nationalism agitations.. These agitations for secession could not have ordinarily sprang up, if the sharing formula is perceived fair and favourable to the host of the country’s economic mainstay. The study recommends that there is the very need to take a serious look at the issue of perceived marginalization, both politically, economically through a review of the revenue sharing formula of the country by the national law making bodies.
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