INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) needs reforms to save Nigeriaโs economy and its democracy, and everything that nation plans to achieve.ย What do we pay INEC to do? To just sit down and do minimal work? See how tribunals are ruling left and right across the nation, making judges now the ABSOLUTE VOTERS.
I have no problem with people who work in INEC but if you have this level of failure rate in your processes, you must change how you do things. Good People, for Nigeria to advance, we need to spend significant efforts to reform how INEC does business, from the local to the federal levels because in most elections, the judges are the real voters now. Yet, we can blame the judges, but if you look deeper, INEC is feeding them nonsense, because in many House races, INEC does not even have means to defend its called results? In short, it makes no effort!
As that happens,ย the national assembly must begin work on fiscal federalism. I have been watching the new tax reform committee. My hope is that they will understand the power of co-opetition and find a mechanism to make states in Nigeria to compete even as they cooperate.ย That system will make everyone look back to our local and state governments, and in the process diminish the influence from Abuja.
For me, that is the tax reform that will work, because with fiscal federalism, the states and the local government systems will evolve based on their inherent capabilities, and simply pay taxes to the federal government.ย We must inject competition into the DNAs of our states.
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