This chapter focuses on the receptacle of power metaphorically labelled Lugardian Architecture. It argues that power in Nigeria sits in the north under the control of an inheritance elite. It is a design made good by the British and countenanced by the Americans. Indeed, it is a culture of “turf-control” and “turf-defence” that thrives on “the capacity to extract largesse from the South while retaining as much as possible of what is considered Northern”.