ABSTRACT
Many scholars and bureaucrats have expressed various views to the meaning and desirability of public sector reform (PSRs). Obadan M. sees PSR as a worldwide phenomenon, which means different things to different people and different things to the same people across time and space. The public sector in Nigeria since independence in 1960 has experienced a steady decline in performance, a transformation that had a precarious level of dependence on the oil sector. Democratization in the face of neoliberal reforms since the return of democracy in Nigeria in 1999 is an archetypical manifestation of democracy without responsive and responsible leadership. Public sector performance is determined to an important extent by the interplay between the public sector and the country's key institutions of accountability. Lohor J. reported that President Olusegun Obasanjo promised that he would ensure that all PSRs embarked upon by his administration are not to be stopped by any incoming administration.
