Every senator and every member of the House of Representatives who voted to create a regional ‘development’ commission in Nigeria claim it is a game-changer that will radically transform the geopolitical zone concerned. But they know that’s not true; they know it’s yet another unaccountable federal agency that will induce the squandering of public funds and do little to support regional development. Similarly, every president who signed into law a bill to establish a regional ‘development’ commission knew he only fostered another opportunity for patronage politics and all types of corruption and abuse of entrusted power. Yet, none of this has stopped the proliferation of regional ‘development’ commissions in Nigeria, with each of the country’s six geopolitical zones having a ‘development’ commission.