Covid-19 Pandemic and the crisis of intergovernmental Response in Nigeria

Project Overview

Generally the essence of Intergovernmental Relations is to foster in a federal structure, cordial relationship between the centre and other the federating units so as to achieve at least basically, relative equality and interdependence. However, the recent experience of governmental response to covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria has proved to be the worse manifestation of an unsettling crises of intergovernmental relations in Nigeria since independence. Using KIIs, FGDs and desk review as sources of primary and secondary data respectively, this study has found that the attempt to respond to covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria was adversely affected by the uncoordinated, non-harmonious, and antagonistic attitude that characterized the relationship between federal, states and local governments. The study concluded that such crises has culminated into a general epileptic and paralyzed governmental response thereby causing citizenry mistrust against government as well as more positive cases and higher casualties of the covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria.