Twitter user, Andy Obuoforibo highlights the corrosive influence of the federal government on Nigeria’s economic prosperity.

Check out his tweets below:

Nigerian Government for decades has been that abusive husband who wants to make his wife unattractive so other guys can't Holla. A thread.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

Clearly, post-civil war, victorious northern military leaders wanted to avoid another rebellion, now fueled by oil wealth. No news there.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

But apart from nationalizing Oil, they also took a refinery to the North. They were mindful of where jobs would be created.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

Economics Twitter has taught me this is stupid, since processing should be close to the area of production. Clusters good, Waka-waka Bad.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

Economics Twitter also taught me it's inefficient to share out 1,000MW nationwide below market rate, rather than focus on industrial zones.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

Investors needed for more capacity won't come because "cheap light for all" can't be profitable until there's more capacity. Paradox abi?

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

Past Northern military rulers pushed universal electrification instead of focus on industrial zones for same reason Kaduna has a refinery.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

There was a deliberate effort to spread out every developmental project, even when it made economic sense not to. This slowed us down.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

But at some point, it stopped being about "the North", becane about "Federal Govt". Any tool used to fight natural forces must be strong.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

And when you use Govt to fight the natural economic order & create artificial value chains, Govt becomes Too Big To Fail, which is bad.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

When the Roman Empire's bureaucracy collapsed, the society was unable to run anything more complex than Castle-and-Villages for CENTURIES.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

When the Roman Empire's bureaucracy collapsed, the society was unable to run anything more complex than Castle-and-Villages for CENTURIES.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

If FG were to collapse, we would plunge into our own Dark(er) Ages. Tribal thinking has built a society where the Govt teat is in all mouths

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

The consequence: most folks cannot be truly serious about reforming government and the system it feeds. Nobody wants to stop suckling.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

Govt doesn't want it. Why create industries & wealth that could be used against it, when thanks to oil it doesn't need tax money?

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

You and I, the frumpy unattractive wife, kukuma don't want it. We want our husband's steady light. Why suffer for another 2 decades.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016

So here we are, Mrs Nigeria, wife of Chief Federal Govt, GCFR, brutalized because he doesn't want Johnny Free Market to give us lift in BMW.

— orwelliANDYstopia (@andyRoidO) September 20, 2016