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Political Violence in Oyo State in the 4th Republic

Authors: AYOMOLA Oluranti

Publication Type: Journal article

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In Nigeria, the history of party politics is synonymous with conflicts. These conflicts have undermined the ability of politics as a platform for the construction of sustainable democratic environment. The seed of such crises was sownearlier with the parties organised to contest elective posts under the elective principle introduced by the Clifford constitution of 1922. However, conflicts (intra-party and inter-party conflict) especially of the violent dimension as witnessed in Nigerian political system, is often associated mostly with the developing democracies of Asia, Latin America and Africa (Rodeet et al 1983:68). The reason partly responsible for this is that most often, there is apparent lack of understanding and internalisation of the democratic norms of bargaining, consensus, and coalition building (Diamond, 1983:46). These norms could be regarded as the building blocks for democratic process of conflict resolution. Nigeria as a state has witnessed series of party conflicts since its independence, the most turbulent of them contributed to the collapse of its First and Second Republics, in 1966 and 1983 respectively (Bolaji, 2003:145). Party conflicts have been so intense in Nigeria that one can readily conclude without mincing words that the history of party politics in Nigeria is the history of conflicts.

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