Executive-Legislative Feud in Nigeria, 2013-2019: Personality or Constitutionality?
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2020-01-11
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Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University Keffi
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Modern democracies insist on separation of governmental powers, an arrangement that forestalls autocracy and authoritarianism of either Arm. This paper attempts an expository re-examination of the. relations between the Executive and Legislative Arms of Nigerian Government spanning the Administrations of Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari (2013-2019). The paper x-rays the sources of the feud which characterized the relations and attributes the source to the interplay of personality and constitutionality; and suggests that for mutual co-existence and effective governance, a return to proper constitutionality, and indeed constitutionalism, as enshrined in the Nigerian Constitution, as variously amended, is a sine qua non.
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Executive, Legislative, Government
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