Between the rich and the poor, what constitutes liability and asset is debatable, though without fact checks. A rich man is identified with his fleet of cars, houses and other profane material acquisitions. The poor on the other hand, glory in his virility as evident in his inability to count the number of offspring that litters his household. Depending on who you hang out with, both have strong premise on which they hang their arguments that is incredibly convincing that both are rich.
Nations are configured same way: Nigeria is about the same size as Texas- second largest state in America. Apart from the existence of 3 major pseudo ethnic nations, Nigeria has 36 states including the FCT akin to the 50 states in America. All the same, let’s do an unfair comparison. Texas in it's appropriation bill will be spending $216.8 billion in the next two years while Delta the richest state in Nigeria and Borno the largest state jointly have a $3.5 billion at their financial disposal under the same period.
Without debate but with our national income, it is abundantly clear that most states in our country are product of unplanned parenthood that have become liability to our federalist-structured nation. It is rather too late collapsing unviable states into neighbouring viable ones; they ought to be put up for sale to the greediest Nigerian. Lagos and Kwara states are not listed for sale. They are already bought.
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