Abstract
The relentless agitation for the restructuring of the Nigerian state has assumed an explosive dimension. Thus, it has occupied the centre stage of political discourse in both within the academia and the political circle. The intensity which the clamour has taken tends to expose the structural defect upon which the country is built. As a result, there has not been any shortage of the insistence on restructuring from members of the political union that allege marginalization and exclusionary tendencies towards them by the dominant social category. Several efforts taken by successive governments in the country seem to have yielded no result, hence the corporate survival of the country is greatly threatened except the current composition of the Nigerian state is earnestly restructured. This is an exploratory study which relies heavily on both primary and secondary sources of data collection such as interview and observation as well as documents. The study anchors on two- state theory as propounded by Mamdani (1991) to pontificate that every heterogeneous state is bifurcated between the dominant social category and the dominated or marginalised social category who will continue to be in an irreconcilable struggle for survival and relevance until an acceptable modality of co-existence is set and unanimously accepted.
Keywords: Marginalization, restructuring, structural imbalance, political power, integration.
