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SUMMARY
The Nsukka Analyst succinctly explains that “marginalization is the deliberate disempowerment of a group of people in a federation politically, economically, socially and militarily, by another group or groups which during the relevant time frame wield power and control the allocation of materials and financial resources at the centre of the federation. Marginalization is both apparent and real; it hinges more on feelings, perception and attitudinal orientation and can therefore be operationalized.1 Since the attainment of political independence in Nigeria, all efforts at state creation, which has almost been the exclusive conduct of the different military regimes, has produced most of them in the ethnic majority areas of the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo and Yoruba. This has the tendency of increasing their access to the oil revenue while exacerbating ethnic tensions among the competing groups. They went further to adopt the oil revenue allocation formula that is based on the principle of need and even development, so as to give ethnic majorities an even greater share.
