PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON PUBLIC POLICY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN NIGERIA

  • Aborisade Olasunkanmi Ph.D
  • Oluwasegunota Bolarinwa Ph.D
Keywords: Constitution, Constitutionalism, Federal, Nigeria, Public Policy, Republic.

Abstract

The work focuses on public policy issues and the role of constitutionalism in Nigeria. Many policies have been made in Nigeria on different issues but we discovered that many hardly see the light of the day. The heroine effects of policy failure in Nigeria have always been on the toiling masses. The point of my argument is that Nigeria has at different times made and promulgates many constitutions right from independent in 1960. The 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria to some extent may be regarded as constitution with constitutionalism, if this is the case then; an adherence to the dictate of the constitution can solved the problem of fail public policy in Nigeria. The country is not bereaved of public policies: the problem is most of them 'ended in fiasco'. In fact, some scholars linked policy failure in Nigeria to the inability of the government to identify the needs of its citizens before initiating the policies. A close look at the statement indicates that the inability of any government to successfully manage its policy process, encounters grave challenges of development. While conceptual analysis was used to clarify key concepts like constitution and public policy, the reconstructive method was used to establish constitutionalism and it attendant advantage as a way of enhancing the coherent and effective implementation of public policy in Nigeria.

Published
2021-07-12
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Articles