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POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTORAL DISPUTES: IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY.

Authors: ADESIYAN Victor

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: International Journal Of African Culture And Ideas

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The problems of Nigeria’s democratic setting are enormous and always characterize by factors that have fundamentally stifled the quest of her democracy. Since the 60’s, politics of identity cum ethnic affiliation has become one of the banes of politics in Nigeria. The conduct of elections over the years has led to her not produced credible result due to politics of identity. One wondered if Nigeria is really a democratic nation; or does voting alone implies adoption of democratic tenets? To answer this question, paper interrogated the challenges of ethnic identity towards the enthronement of democracy. Thus its literatures focused on democracy, elections, political culture and ethnic identity. Study is descriptive in nature and adopted political liberalism as its theoretical framework. Findings revealed that cultural affiliation plays major role in Nigeria’s democracy, which has brought setback towards the emergence of a focus driven leader. Equally, study found out that politics of identity as far as Nigeria democracy is concern is unhealthy as it is prone to unequal distribution of wealth which most time aggravates political crises. Hence, this paper recommends the need to liberalize Nigeria’s democracy where everyone has equal right to vote and be voted for without any threat; also, where every citizen embrace with passion, the Nigeria’s projects as against cultural and ethnic acculturation.

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ADESIYAN,V. . (2015). POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTORAL DISPUTES: IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY., 15 (), 19-19.

ADESIYAN,V. . "POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTORAL DISPUTES: IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY." 15, no (), (2015): 19-19.

ADESIYAN,V. and . (2015). POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTORAL DISPUTES: IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY., 15 (), pp19-19.

ADESIYANV, . POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTORAL DISPUTES: IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY.. 2015, 15 ():19-19.

ADESIYAN,Victor , . "POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTORAL DISPUTES: IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY.", 15 . (2015) : 19-19.

A.Victor , "POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTORAL DISPUTES: IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY." vol.15, no., pp. 19-19, 2015.

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