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Your submission at Articles for creation: Can Nigeria Bake Her Own Bread? (April 4)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Can Nigeria Bake Her Own Bread? (June 1)
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The Federalist Movement of Nigeria
The Federalist Movement of Nigeria is a social and political campaign movement and a body of concerned Nigerians in pursuit of a Nigerian state that satisfies the aspirations and expectations of its people. They believe that Nigeria is not a homogeneous entity, and in recognition of the ethnic and cultural diversity, they subscribe to deepening the federal practice such that greater resource and enterprise control can be retained by the constituent units and not by the central government as is the present practice in Nigeria. This they believe is central to maximizing the country’s economic efficiency which would in turn stimulate national development and reduce ethnic tension.

They believe that there need o reintroduce the debate over what they believe to be, in fact, the foundation of Nigeria’s unending political and economic challenges. They strongly believe that something is obviously and fundamentally wrong with the structure of Nigeria’s federalism and this is the foundation of Nigeria's consistent historical failures and underdevelopment as a country. They believe that the major problem with Nigeria is the present skewed, flawed, corrupt, unitary ‘feeding bottle’ structure of its federalism. Tony Osborg, a prominent member of the Movement writes that 'the existing federal structure does not only breed corruption, it also corrupts our politicians, youths and leaders alike. It makes the state governments lazy and unproductive, it makes the local people poor, it sends too much power and money to the central authority and leaves the local people and their local economy miserable. And worst of it all, the present structure does not enhance competitive productivity and efficiency amongst states and at the local levels.'

Members of the Movement believes that they have a moral and patriotic duty to change this defective structure, by whatever legal means necessary. It is on this foundation that the Movement is built upon.

Origin
The Federalist Movement of Nigeria was born out of the recent consistent historical failures witnessed by the democratic governments of Nigeria, starting from the destruction of the country's federalism in 1963 by the military intervention and the adoption of a unitary system of government which although had the name 'federalism' but was in fact unitary in nature. Until December 2015, the Movement had existed as a loosed form of organization with each member advocating for a restructured Nigeria on both offline and social media. It had a Facebook group page Federalists' Movement of Nigeria where members meet to share their opinion about a restructured Nigeria. By December 2015, the Movement launched its website, official Facebook Page, Twitter Handle, Instagram and Blog. By January ending of 2016, it had received number of visitors to its social sites.

The Movement, although seen as a political Movement is yet to fully begin operations as either a political organization or a non-governmental organization. Its goal is to simply entrench True Fiscal Federalism by whatever legal means necessary in Nigeria and its membership base cuts across the states of Nigeria and outside. The Federalist Movement is one of the few ideological movements in Nigeria that argues for the country to be restructured into True Fiscal Federalism.

Aims and Objectives
In January 2016, The Movement in one of its articles declared that “We have now come to the firm conclusion that Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP were actually not the problem of Nigeria. And also, President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC are likely not to be the solution to Nigeria’s problems. The problem with Nigeria is the structure of our federalism. This skewed unitary ‘feeding bottle’ federalism that we currently practice must be replaced with a more efficient, competitive, locally driven and productive fiscal federalism, if we must to make progress as a country. Our skewed federalism is the cause of our problem and True Fiscal Federalism is the solution. We must now agree on the need to restructure Nigeria into True Fiscal Federalism"

As a prelude to the ambition of the Movement, it is in their belief that Nigeria is a structurally defective country built on an irreconcilable, fraudulent, retrogressive and unjust foundation which is its style of federalism. The Movement believes that Nigeria does not practice federalism but merely claims so in name. The tenets of true federalism are absent in Nigeria's style of federalism.

Federalism ideally means a system of government in which the federating units maintain a high level of autonomy while sustaining the central authority. The Movement believes Nigeria practices the opposite of true federalism but yet claims to be a federal state.

The major Aims and Objectives of the Movement can be summarized as follows;

1.	To make the subject of our warped federalism take the forefront in our national discourse being the roots of all the country’s woes.

2.	To educate young people of the same and to enlighten them on the connections between the fault lines in our federal practice and the socio-economic cum political failure which the Nigerian state has become. 3.	To influence political opinion among the electorate and viable electoral candidates to support the restructuring of our current federal model.

4.	To educate on the subject of federalism in Nigeria globally through seminars and symposia and build a massive global support for the restructuring of the Nigerian state to suit a reasonably federal model.

5.	To eventually hatch into a federalist party if the foregoing objectives do not translate into the reality of transforming Nigeria into a country that keeps the fundamental tenets of federalism within the first decade of the formation of this movement.

6.	To persuade and influence the legislature into amending the Nigerian Constitution so as to entrench ‘True Fiscal Federalism’ in Nigeria.

Tenets of True Fiscal Federalism
TENETS OF TRUE FISCAL FEDERALISM

1.	Decentralization of political and economic powers to the federating units of the country.

2.	Adopt Bottom-up approach to governance.

3.	Entrench community (locality) governance.

4.	Scrap and replace statutory allocations with Internally Generated Revenues (IGRs).

5.	Decentralize taxation and entrench localization of all forms of taxation.

6.	Allow communities to have a 100% control of their lands and the resources in it.

7.	Decentralize exclusive responsibilities to the federating units.

8.	Entrench state policing and community involvement in matters of security, basic education, healthcare, etc.

9.	Entrench a system where communities fund the LGAs, LGAs fund the states and the states fund the central authority.

The above nine points are the cardinal features of True Fiscal Federalism which the Movement hopes to achieve.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Federalist Movement of Nigeria (March 7)
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