The Impact of States’ Creation on Nigerian Public Bureaucracies

State creation is a major reorganisation policy of a federation aimed at promoting unity in diversity particularly among the various ethnic groups in a heterogeneous country such as Nigeria. The creations of states are also aimed at resolving boundary disputes and promote national development. However, the multiplication of states on the other hand, translates to the multiplication of administrative Agencies particularly the bureaucracy. The constant increase in the number of these administrative Agencies no doubt has a lot of consequences for their viability, effectiveness and efficiency. This is because it weakens the administrative capacities of these bureaucracies since their existence and indeed their survival in terms of finances depends almost entirely on the central government. This paper infers that the exercise of uncontrolled creation of more states in Nigeria requires radical reorientation coupled with strong political will for public bureaucracies at the state level to be able to meet their developmental and efficiency goals.