The Old Federal Secretariat was once a nerve center of Nigerian power, functioning as the heart of Nigeria’s civil service. Since the federal capital was moved to Abuja in 1991, this complex has been left to rot. The abandoned Ikoyi Federal Secretariat. For those tasked with shaping the built environment, this landscape of sovereign rot poses a sharp ethical challenge. The abandoned Secretariat and the state-sanctioned displacement are evidence of a system functioning exactly as those who benefit from it intend.