Jonathan’s Constitutional Conference in Nigeria: A reflection and a radical critique

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dc.contributor.authorBasiru, Adeniyi S
dc.contributor.authorSalawu, Mashud L.A
dc.contributor.authorArogundade, Martins A
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-16T08:14:19Z
dc.date.available2020-01-16T08:14:19Z
dc.date.issued2016-01
dc.descriptionPeer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso journal, Volume 8 Number 1, Jan 2016, p. 79 –87en_US
dc.description.abstractThe process of bringing forth a constitution is as crucial and important as the constitution itself. However, while this ideal has been institutionalized in many liberal democracies, it is yet to be fully embraced in many illiberal countries. In Nigeria, the focus of this discourse, the process of constitution-making is as old as the country itself but such processes had always followed the same pattern: elite-engineered, paternalistically-driven and above all, devoid of citizens’ imprints via a referendum. It is against this backdrop that this article, in a retrospective and analytical manner, examines and offers a democratic critique ofNigeria’s most recent attempt at Nigeria’s constitutional engineering, the Jonathan’s Constitutional Conference (JCC) of 2014. It observes that President Jonathan-initiated Constitutional Conference mimicked the paternalistic character of the previous attempts at constitution-making and as such the process is not markedly different from the old. It submits that as long as the state elites, acting on behalf of the hegemonic faction of the dominant class, continue to see constitution-making as their exclusive reserve and are always willing to defend even a bad constitution, the search for a people’s constitution would continue.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBasiru, A.S., Salawu, M.L. and Arogundade, M.A., 2016. Jonathan’s Constitutional Conference in Nigeria: A reflection and a radical critique. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 8(1), pp.79-87.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-2815
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/1894
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC192233
dc.identifier.uri
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zululanden_US
dc.subjectconstitutionen_US
dc.subjectNigerian stateen_US
dc.subjectreferendumen_US
dc.subjecthegemonyen_US
dc.subjectpaternalismen_US
dc.subjectGoodluck Jonathanen_US
dc.titleJonathan’s Constitutional Conference in Nigeria: A reflection and a radical critiqueen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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