We are not what we claim to be in the larger sphere of social entity when we think what we ought to do is to morally addresses social decadence or social malaise from the angle of institutionalised ethics of social reform and I make bold to declare that it would not work in the deranged context of periodical reforms.The first time and the last time Nigerian society experiences social engineering ordinarily also known mother of social reforms was under Gowon regime when chief obafemi Awolowo created state system and nullified regional system.It did not happen in a day it took him a decade of monumental social reforms harnessed by a flurry of uncommon socialist indoctrinated programs induced by social egalitarian spirits and there was not developmental reform nor any reform again and until the eve of the civil war and we did not have reform but something quite unusual when the state of mass programs even before it was begun necessitated the initiative and the emergence of state system.Out of the 18 state system he initiated he managed to create the first twelve states as unveiled by professor bolaji akinyemi.Have we fared well thereafter with the first social engineering system?Of course yes but to a larger extent no because tribalism,religion and corruption three cardinal problems completely truncated the expected benefits of this mother of reforms and basically that type of social engineering was the prime reason for the survival of Nigerian geographical landscape to which the author of same awoistic method of social engineering aptly refers it "as a mere geographical expression"given the fragility of the social system that lacks human face.This inherently summarises the problems as lack of socioeconomic ideology albeit our survival as a nation in the context of social impairment politics in the face of relentless salvo of social instability.Many thanks to this venerable sage that we still survive as a nation suffering and smiling in the midst of pantheon of Pandora boxes.With coherent ideological resolve getting a solid state of social relation web we can afford to rebuild the nation of choices and recall or rework or exceed the golden age of the fifties,sixties and seventies driven by awoism and unleash new global macroeconomic order of marsolism to obtain the most ideal redress we could get from the nation's checkered antecedence. Nevertheless we need observe the fundamental framework that was laid for the success of awoism was laid in the social reforms that came thirty to forty years before and same was also preceded by educational and religious reforms that were widely accepted in the tercentenary period much earlier.We should have three or four generation of reforms before the emergence of awoism our first and clear national ideology.The first was colonial and religious, second colonial and educational,third was nationalistic vanguard and Macaulayian in spirit.Three waves of social reforms experimented and d last was authored by homegrown initiative and Herbert Macaulay was the principal actor in the league of extraordinary gentlemen and pragmatic politics that was begun from the days of African youth movement.The first homegrown social reform paved the way for independence and was the most successful reforms till date in the nation's history be it pre or post independence era.In this era Obafemi awolowo also imbibed the Macaulayianism to perpetrate the best Marxist reform in the history of Africa.He was tutored by the waves and the spirit of the period to complete that reforms in the fifties.The era was divided into three stages the prereform struggle a period of conception of African youth movement,down to the dominance of Macaulayianism in the spirit of NCNC and third era emerged with the formation of action group.This last phase appears to be most holistic and most trouble some period in the nation's history when tribalism and religion tore apart the yet unborn nation.It also gave birth to the most distinctive ideology that distinguishes the nation as a unique black nation.Permit to say though we're accustomed to the history of the first two eras of social reforms however were also elaborated in this edition.The growth of history in Nigeria in the nonlinear context could be proven to be no growth and we wasted more than two hundred years of zero growth and during the period we were bestowed with the social resources for growth or rudiments for growth generation but we hardly use them.We know where we fall off when we dissect this divisions and eras of social reforms and almost all western methods had failed us.
Every society devises the nature of their socioeconomic system at a time invariably not intandem with the alienated propensities of foreign aggression to cease the national path of rational choices in the management of centrifugal and centripetal forces of critical fathom of nation building.Awoistic period of the third social reforms was a trailblazer to be accorded a scholastic period of reform on itself a bridge builder that fabricated the new history of a people or culture making it about four generations of social reforms we ever had prior to the social engineering of the seventies a proven testament to imbibe the the empiricism of the wars as the most comprehensive erudition in the pragmatism of nation building knowing fully well almost all major human and technological inventions were a byeproducts of warfare.Nigeria was not an exception as the immanent civil war brought out the state system and we imbibed it hook line and sinker.The truth is that we may no longer cherish much longer the protracted debate about the contribution of successive states to the polity at large and whether they were excess garbages to the welfare of the nation might be another spectre of argumentative and disputative embellishment for donkey years to come .The prejudice for and against the crictical choices of nation building might be not an imprecation to moral service of social perception at large without which further expedition of social reform expediency not faded in vain nor possible.
