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Climate governance in Nigeria is a new entrant
to the domain of public interest. Attempts at legislation
through agenda setting inroads and eventual attaining the
list of state responsibilities for public policy has been an
illusion. This study attempts an interrogation of the
political architecture-National Legislative Assembly
(NASS) and Federal Executive arms of government in
Nigeria capacity to marshal articulate climate change
policies and sustain its governance in the midst of
competing exigencies. Relying on secondary documents,
the “public choice theory” was selected to understand the
legislative delays and its ramification for Nigeria. The
core argument herein, hinges on the comatose state of the
Nigeria’s earlier vision 2020 framework in which climate
change was encased and the obscurity of the vision. This
study further posits the need for governance urgency
connected to concretized deliverables within the context
of the “greater good” window shut consistently against
vulnerable groups.
