POLITICAL TURBULENCE AND GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA'S STATECRAFT

The study on aerodynamics of politics and stability of statecraft in the Nigerian project sought to explain the stability of statecraft in the Nigerian project from the perspective of aerodynamic stability of an aircraft. The purpose was to examine the stability of statecraft in the Nigerian project from the backdrop of aerodynamic stability of an aircraft in flight. Its adopted methodology was hinged on the conceptual and historical frameworks as well as strategies of inquiry such as grounded theory. The study was anchored on the systems approach theory for its theoretical framework. It established that statecraft responded to political, economic and environmental forces similar to aerodynamic forces acting on the surfaces of an aircraft. It also identified the fuselage of the aircraft as akin to the constitution of the state in statecraft. It concluded that the Nigerian project statecraft will attain greater stability if it were restructured to conform to the semimonocoque-fuselage statecraft constitution of 1963.