SYNOPSIS OF ‘HOW STATES ARE GOVERNED: A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT BY NIGERIAN GOVERNORS’

Abstract

How governors tackle the developmental challenges that they are elected to solve, in practical terms, is a topic that is often not written about. The situation is made more difficult by the fact that Nigerian Governors seldom write memoirs, and that biographies about them often talk about what they did, rather than how they did it. The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) Secretariat has been compiling and publishing the Inauguration speeches by new governors for some years now but handing over notes (where they exist) would often focus on what is being handed over, rather than how thorny challenges were addressed and how such future challenges could be tackled.