Key questions this article answers:
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What is the current relationship between arms of government at the state level?
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What is the significance of President Buhari signing the financial independence amendment, and what are the potential implications of the amendment?
“You get a car! You get a car!! You get a car!!!”
Oprah Winfrey’s mega giveaway of 276 cars in September 2004 to her audience was one of the defining moments of Daytime TV in the US and perhaps the most memorable line of her long media career.
When elected officials across Nigeria take office in May and look under their seats, they will find gifts of a different kind, courtesy of outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. These gifts are in the form of constitutional amendments which will advance the cause of restructuring and radically alter the relationship between arms of government at the state level.
If President Buhari were one
