The Constitution Trap: Living in a House We Didn't Build: Mass Reader Edition

Dele drives a keke napep in Port Harcourt. Every morning he passes the federal courthouse on Aggrey Road with "We the People" carved in stone. He has read it a thousand times and never understood it until he learned that the document behind those words was written by twenty-five military appointees in 1999, signed by one general, and never shown to any Nigerian for approval. You are living under a military decree wearing democratic clothes. The Mass Reader Edition of The Constitution Trap explains in the language of Dele's street — not a law faculty — exactly how Nigeria's 1999 Constitution concentrates power in Abuja, handcuffs local governments, and was built specifically to prevent the citizens nominally under it from changing it.