Politics Of Economic Planning And Survival Of Democracy In Nigeria: 2007/2008 Experience

Abstract

Enhancing a virile budgetary plan and adequate planning
processes is germane to national development, growth and
sustainability. This paper argues that for Nigeria's Fourth Republic
to be sustained and the nation-building agenda realized
government and indeed, public office holders at the corridors of
power must expedite necessary actions in terms of fiscal revenue
allocation to critical areas of Nigeria's national socio-economic
and political development in order to give the entire budgetary
process a human face. Realizing desired objective on Nigeria's
path to greatness, the paper argues, is contingent on the will power,
dedication ands probity of both rulers and the ruled. This tendency
is capable of generating valuable entry-point to socio-economic
and political development and sustainability.