Political parties have two major contradictory tendencies in multi-ethnic states. They could either serve as agents of national integration by transcending ethno-regional divides and providing a common platform for political recruitment, or they could simply serve as champions of ethno-regional politics....
Political process The constitution grants all citizens at least 18 years of age theright to vote. TheAction Group(AG) and theNorthern People’s Congress(NPC) were the major Nigerian parties when the country became independent in 1960. However, their regional rather than national focus—the AG ...
Nigeria's two major political parties, the APC and PDP, are expected to conclude their nomination exercise later this month, ahead of the Independent National Electoral Commission's early June deadline for all parties to present their candidates for the presidential election.■...
party politics in Nigeria was ethnically and regionally based. The major political parties tended to represent a specific region or cluster of ethnic groups. For example, the National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), even though it began as a nationalist movement, essentially...
Ngou (1989) estimates that including the three major political parties, a total of fifteen others contested the critical election of 1959, the more prominent of the parties in this emergent multiparty system between 1922 and 1960 were the Nigerian National Democratic Party (1923), the people ...
national plane has emerged, it documents how the major contenders for power in the forthcoming elections are groups, not solely based on ethnicity, that do have some ideological differences, but are nevertheless parties that are organised around well‐known political figures from pre‐military coup ...
The former banker said politics in Nigeria should be detribalized for Africa's most populous nation to grow and take its rightful place in the comity of nations. He said zoning, which had been used by the major political parties, might have been relevant in the past but that it is no ...
In April 1998 four of Nigeria's five major political parties nominated Abacha as their presidential candidate. Amid opposition accusations that the transition plan was designed to prolong Abacha's rule, legislative elections held on 25 April were heavily boycotted. Nigeria's political fortunes changed...
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has stated that the alleged attempt by the Federal Government to silence the opposition shows that democracy in Nigeria... Nigeria News6 hours ago President Tinubu Will Protect Journalists – Sunday Dare The Special Adviser on Media and Public Comm...
A major characteristic of the Nigerian legislature is its principles of bicameralism predicated upon a two cha... JA Udoete 被引量: 4发表: 2011年 Indiscipline in Political Parties: Bane of Democratic Consolidation and Good Governance in Nigeria Indiscipline in political parties is antithetic to ...