While contributing to Nigeria’s constitutional debates after the civil war, Obafemi Awolowo argued in his 1970 work, ‘The Strategy and Tactics of the People’s Republic of Nigeria’, that “to keep Nigeria one is not an end in itself, but a means to great national ends, goals, and targets.” He warned that national unity would remain fragile unless anchored in concrete socioeconomic objectives that improve everyday life. This reasoning shaped the inclusion of the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy in Nigeria’s 1979 Cons
While contributing to Nigeria’s constitutional debates after the civil war, Obafemi Awolowo argued in his 1970 work, ‘The Strategy and Tactics of the People’s Republic of Nigeria’, that “to keep Nigeria one is not an end in itself, but a means to great national ends, goals, and targets.” He warned that national unity would remain fragile unless anchored in concrete socioeconomic objectives that improve everyday life. This reasoning shaped the inclusion of the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy in Nigeria’s 1979 Cons
