Why did the educated elite criticised the Policy of indirect rule?

• NON RECOGNITION OF EDUCATED ELITES: British officials
  did not see the need to include the educate • Nigerians in the Colonial administration.
•  THE USE OF
  UNEDUCATED TRADITIONAL RULERS: The
  indirect rule system made use of local chiefs and traditional rulers who were mostly uneducated.
•  THE WARRANT
  CHIEFS: The creation of
  warrant chiefs in the eastern part of the countr-. led to problems of
  different proportions. The warrant chiefs became highhanded and ruthless in the discharge of
  their functions.
•  COMBINATION
  OF JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN THE HANDS OF COLONIAL OFFICERS: Most of the British
  Officials exercised both .functions and even to the
  disadvantages of the people.
•  POSITION OF THE CH1EFS: The colonial officials strengthened or
  empowered and protected the powers of the
  chiefs even beyong traditional bounds. In fact, they acted more than their
  traditional role.
•  INTRODUCTION
  OFTAXAT1ON: Britain imposed
  different methods of taxation on the people and it led to riots in various
  parts of the country for example the Aba women’s riot of 1929 and Iseyin riot of
  1927.
•  APPOINTMENT AND DISPOSITION: Traditional chiefs
  were appointed and disposed or removed by colonial masters. The people were not allowed the opportunity to
  appoint traditional rulers themselves. This was kicked against by the educated
  elites.
•  EDUCATION: The level of
  education was high in the east, people could question the relevance of indirect
  rule system imposed on them. Most of the protest or riots happened as a result of this.
•  DECENTRALISED
  ADMINISTRATION: The eastern
  Nigerian, for instance had a decentralised -system of administration. Powers are not
  concentrated but decentraiised. In fact, the Igbo political system is more of Republic form of government. Indirect
  rule cannot work under such system.
•  TRIBALISM: The system encourage
  tribalism and sectionalism at the expense of national consciousness, little wonder,
  Northern Nigeria did not want independence when other parts were asking for it.