STATE, CLASS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA: THE LIMITATIONS OF REFORMS
STATE, CLASS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA: THE LIMITATIONS OF REFORMS
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1990
Authors
ABBASS, Isah Mohammed
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Abstract
There has been a considerable growth in the studies of the problems
associated with Local Government in Nigeria. Most of these studies have
only concentrated on the common issues like administration and efficiency
to the total exclusion of the role of the state and the concomitant class
interests that help dictate the Mod us-operandi of the Local Government
Councils.
This study attempts to show that the evolution and role of the state
has a profound bearing on the activities of the Local Government. Thus,
Local Government does not exist in a vacuum, isolated from and independent
of the motion of the state. Invariably, our attempts to understand and
explain the contemporary system of Local Government in Nigeria provokes
such class analysis. Hence, the concepts of class and state provide the
framework for historical and dialectical analysis in the evolution of
the contemporary Nigerian state in order to show that the present situation
has a direct linkage with the past.
This study examines the class character of the Nigerian state which
is involved in the processes of accumulation aimed at safeguarding class
interest and dominatin^at the local level. It suggests that the peculiar
nature of the dependent capitalist state precludes the existence of an
effective and people-oriented third tier of government.
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Keywords
STATE,, CLASS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT,, LIMITATIONS OF REFORMS,, NIGERIA