StateLord-Councillors: The Living Engines of Governance by the Governed
BY: OMOLAJA MAKINEE
Modern governance has long suffered from a fundamental inversion: power flows downward, while legitimacy is rhetorically claimed to flow upward. Policies are conceived in distant capitals, abstracted from lived realities, and delivered to communities as finished decrees. Participation is reduced to periodic voting, consultation exercises, or symbolic representation. What masquerades as democracy is, in practice, administrative paternalism.
The introduction of StateLord-Councillors represents a decisive civilisational rupture with this model. It repositions governance not as an act performed upon the people, but as a process generated by them. Within an ethnosocialist and populocratic order, StateLord-Councillors function as the primary sites of power formation, where citizens exercise authority directly, continuously, and constructively over the policies they themselves prescribe.
This is not decentralisation in the liberal sense, nor federalism in the republican sense. It is something more foundational: the institutionalisation of bottom-up sovereignty – Populocracy.
1. Governance Reversed: From Command to Construction
Under conventional republican systems, development is imagined as a vertical process. Central governments design programmes, allocate budgets, and issue directives downward. Communities are treated as passive recipients of policy outcomes rather than active authors of policy intent. Ethnosocialism reverses this logic. Development no longer descends; it rises.
StateLord-Councillors are the structured mechanisms through which this reversal becomes operational. They are not advisory bodies, lobbying platforms, or consultative forums. They are working institutions of governance, embedded directly within the Administrative-Division of government.
Here, citizens do not petition power. They are power.
2. StateLord-Councillors as the Engines of Bottom-Up National Construction
StateLord-Councillors are territorially grounded, functionally specialised, and civically populated bodies through which communities articulate needs, design solutions, and initiate implementation pathways. They operate at the interface of lived reality and national coordination.
Within the Citizenry-Branch, StateLord-Councillors allow communities to:
- Define social priorities based on actual conditions.
- Draft policies reflecting cultural norms, ethical values, and local realities.
- Monitor implementation outcomes in real time.
- Revise policies dynamically through populocratic feedback.
Within the Economy-Branch, StateLord-Councillors enable:
- Collective determination of production needs.
- Coordination of labour, skills, and resources.
- Alignment of economic activity with social provision.
- Elimination of speculative production detached from real demand.
In this structure, governance becomes procedural rather than hierarchical, organic rather than imposed, and adaptive rather than rigid.
3. Citizen Power in Practice: From Voice to Authority
African governance traditions are relational. They depend on:
- Proximity between authority and community.
- Moral authority derived from trust.
- Decisions rooted in lived reality.
The revolutionary nature of StateLord-Councillors lies in what they replace. They replace:
- Representation with participation.
- Consultation with authorship.
- Electoral delegation with continuous engagement.
Citizens do not merely vote policies into existence; they remain involved throughout the policy lifecycle—from conception to execution to revision. Power is not surrendered to intermediaries; it is exercised directly within institutional form.
This is populocracy in its literal sense: rule by the people, not through slogans, but through structured governance.
4. Secretariats: The Living Engines of Government
If StateLord-Councillors are the engines of governance by the people, then Secretariats are the engines of governance execution. In ethnosocialism, government no longer “decides.” It implements.
Secretariat-Ministries, structured within the Executive-Branch, do not formulate policy autonomously. They receive policy mandates generated through StateLord-Councillors, vetted by the Commicratic-Department, and translated through the legislative assemblies jointly occupied by the Citizenry-Branch and the Economy-Branch.
Their function is operational, not ideological. They exist to:
- Translate citizen-prescribed policy into executable programmes.
- Coordinate logistics, infrastructure, and administrative capacity.
- Maintain reciprocal communication with StateLord-Councillors and Commicratic-Departments.
- Adjust implementation in response to bottom-up feedback.
This creates a reciprocal governance loop:
- Citizens or working-group generate policy upward at the StateLord-Councillor’s office.
- StateLord-Councillor forward the policy to relevant Commicratic-Department for vetting.
- Commicratic-Department complete its feasibility studies with each policy proposal with the relevant secretariat ministry, and forward it back to the StateLord-Councillor.
- StateLord-Councillor passed the approved policy to either the regional Citizenry-Committee or Economic-Unionist.
- Citizenry-Committee provide policy information delivery to their regional communities for collective voting and approval. If Economic-Unionist, policy information delivery is provided to regional working-group for collective voting and approval.
- Citizenry-Committee or Economic-Unionist submits approved policies selected by the citizenry or working-group through an electoral process on to the relevant secretariat ministry to execute the policy downward.
- Outcomes are monitored laterally and revised collectively.
Government becomes a service mechanism rather than a ruling class.
5. Judiciary: The Living Engines of the State
Above government, but never above the people, stands the Judiciary-Branch—the institutional embodiment of the State. In this model, the State does not govern. It supervises.
Statelord-Governors and Statelord-Councillors, positioned within the Judiciary-Branch, do not interfere in policy formulation or administrative execution. Their role is to:
- Ensure constitutional coherence.
- Safeguard consensus-based governance.
- Prevent institutional overreach.
- Protect ethnopublic equilibrium.
They act as custodians of the civilisational framework, ensuring that both citizen-driven governance and Secretariat-led implementation remain aligned with agreed legal, moral, and constitutional boundaries.
The Judiciary thus becomes:
- A supervisor, not a ruler.
- A stabiliser, not a commander.
- A guarantor of process, not a producer of policy.
6. A Triadic System of Living Governance
Together, StateLord-Councillors, Secretariats, and the Judiciary form a triadic system of living governance:
- StateLord-Councillors generate authority from below.
- Secretariats operationalise authority from above.
- Judiciary safeguards authority from distortion.
Each is autonomous in function but interdependent in purpose. This architecture dissolves the false opposition between State and society. The State becomes the guardian of process, government becomes the executor of will, and society becomes the author of its own order.
Conclusion: Governance Reclaimed
The introduction of StateLord-Councillors is revolutionary not because it adds another institution, but because it redefines what governance is.
Governance is no longer an act of ruling. It is an act of organising. Development is no longer imposed. It is constructed. Power is no longer borrowed. It is exercised.
In this model, the people do not ask to be heard. They build, decide, and revise—continuously, collectively, and consciously. The Regional Commission is not merely a structure; it is the institutionalisation of dignity, agency, and civilisational continuity.
Governance, at last, returns home—to the people themselves.
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