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Rewriting Nigerian Federal Constitution: A Prescriptive Argument for a Self-Sustaining Arrangement

What is required for Nigeria's federal constitutional arrangement to be stable and self-sustaining? This article answers this question by drawing on the classical and contemporary theories of federalism that explain the ways in which federalism survives. It combines these classical and modern theories and uses the combined ideas to make a context-sensitive normative argument in four issue areas, namely: the constituent units; the party system; the allocation of competencies; and fiscal autonomy. The article notes that a stable and self-sustaining federal constitutional arrangement will require…