Altercation for Zoning Principles: The Political Game and Gain for Nigeria

Ethel Innocent Amadi Ph.D, Jason O. Osai Ph.D, Sam B. Kalagbor Ph.D, Nelson V. C. Okene Ph.D

Abstract

Of recent Nigeria's political landscape has been bombarded with questions, over which ethnic group or geo-political zone's turn it is to govern? Subsumed within the context of political standoff and lack of party cohesion and discipline. This pathetic state has attracted much misgivings about the future of this great country, prompting a rethinking on adopting a stabilising force, like zoning principle and rotational presidency. Zoning has become both topical and bleeding, it has generated diverse commentaries from the elites. Some are very controversial as it outrightly condemned it, while others have advocated its adoption. These altercations were subjected to critical analysis to dissect the political game and gain in jettisoning it,, and the game or gain derived from its adoption and application. For theoretical framework, the paper adopted ZeroSum Game, a variant of Game theory, while for methodology the descriptive and content analysis was utilized. The paper found a bit of genuineness in some of the expressed fears about zoning, while others are mundane, self serving, and clothed with ethnic and group interests. Sadly enough, the Federal government of Nigeria has not given the zoning principle the required constitutional consideration. The paper came to the conclusion that the peculiarity of Nigeria's political environment and insincerity among the governing elites makes the zoning formula

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