Okadigbo’s Lesson: How zoning is weapon of exclusion in Nasarawa

It was on October 5, 1978, a chilly and interesting night in the city of Lagos, Nigeria's economic nerve centre. Mr Eric Teniola, then a reporter at the Nigerian Tribune, had one of his familiar and fascinating encounters with the late Dr Chuba Okadigbo, who took time to enlighten him on a concept that was then unfamiliar in Nigeria's political lexicon: zoning.