Succession to property, rights, liabilities and obligations
Section 317(2)(a) · 1999 Constitution (2004 edition)
What Constitution says
(a) the President and Government of the Federation, and the Governor and Government of a state, shall be deemed, respectively, to be successors to the said former authority of the Federation and former authority of the state in question; and
This is the 1999 Constitution as published in 2004. Later amendments aren't included yet, so a section may have changed since.
Original source
Official Gazette · CFRN 1999 official PDF · printed page 130. Original document
Release: draft-c8d50d87fae9. Source scope, review and corrections