Politico-Administrative Perspective of COVID–19 in Nigeria: A Looting Model Towards Destruction Of Human Resources (HR) in A Dysfunctional Society

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic created huge crisis management assessment indices among nations globally. This has distinguished progressives from retrogressive nations. The COVID-19 index case arrived late in Nigeria than many other countries. Yet, the COVID-19 crisis management posed by the national government is chaotically loaded with politico-administrative inefficiency and ineffectiveness due to senseless elite looting and corruption. When other nations are busy fighting COVID-19, Nigeria politico-administrative elites are busy looting, lying, and covering up evidence. The looting further exposed the dearth and decay of infrastructure and social services in the country, especially in the critical and worst hit sectors by COVID-19 known as the public health and safety, and the socio-economic institutions. Data gathered secondarily were descriptively content analyzed. Theoretical framework implicit in the work is elite theory. Findings exposed that the politico-administrative elite mismanaged COVID-19 in Nigeria thereby making the masses angry; doubtful of the reality of COVID-19 existence as evident in massive flagrant disobedience of the second wave of lockdown declared by the federal government. The paper argued that Nigeria will be worst after COVID-19, not because of the disease, but because of the elite bad governance.