Whereas the classical definition of democracy in rough and ready use is “Government of the people, for the people and by the people’’, for all practical purposes in our own experience in Nigeria we might as well defined it as ‘’Government of the Governors, for the Governors and by the Governors’’.
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This much has come to view against the immediate background of recent high profile meetings held by the Southern Governors Forum in Asaba the Delta state capital in which several issues like open grazing and restructuring of the country were discussed and decided, and the Nigerian Governors Forum where the Governors gratuitously decided without consultations with other stakeholders, the price at which petrol should sell in the country.