Urban Architectural Neglect and the Politics of Abandonment: the case of the Nigerian Politics in the Built Environment

Abstract

The politics of hatred, politics of buy and conquer and the systemic politics of self gains and enrichments have hampered and for a long time, the growth and developments in Nigeria’s  built environment. Those types of politics’ equally resulted in Architecture of Governance,” dealing with abandonment of projects with the exit of a sitting governor in different states. This paper investigated and evolved modalities that would ameliorate the problems and it adopted content base analysis (secondary data sources), where the authors analyzed and interpreted works of other authors as they applied to this work. Nigeria is into money politics and politicians buy their offices from the delegates in the primary elections and in the general elections, from the voters. Competence and ideology are no longer considered as eligibility for election. Electability now depends on how much one can afford and who has the capability to outspend the other. In other for Nigeria to grow socio-economically and the cities built environments blossom, the politics of hatred, buying votes and Godfatherism must stop and government remains continuous