Elections: An Exploration of Theoretical Postulations

Emmanuel, Orbunde

doi:10.20940/jae/2007/v6i2a1

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“…Sincerely, the majority of the voters still subject themselves to politics of money, favourtism, sectionalism, and abuse of voting powers support. But the reverse is the case in Africa and Nigeria in particular whereby money politics is the yardstick for gaining peoples' mandate (Ojo, 2008). Not until proper orientation and education are given to the mass electorates, politicking in Nigeria would still be guided by parochial political behaviour.…”

Section: Conclusion and Recommendationsmentioning

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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and The Conduct of 2023 Presidential and National Assembly Elections in Nigeria: A Paradigm Shift

Banjo

2023

African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research

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It is an established fact that Nigeria’s electoral process has always been marred with irregularities over the years. The 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections are a paradigm shift in the history of electioneering in the country. Though some challenges were encountered in the conduct of the elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was given a pass mark by many local and international observers and thus made the general election a watershed. This makes it imperative in this paper to examine the conduct of the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria. The paper infers that if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can continue to discharge its functions out of political influence and move away from the status quo where a political party dominates the constitution of drivers of INEC, there is every tendency that there will be continuous better conduct of election in the future. The paper taps various means of getting relevant materials to put this study together for onward academic utilisation and to reshape the conduct of Nigeria’s subsequent general elections like the maintenance of established punishment for electoral offenders, strengthened voter education, and establishment of training institutes for prospective politicians.

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Section: Conclusion and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and The Conduct of 2023 Presidential and National Assembly Elections in Nigeria: A Paradigm Shift

Banjo

2023

African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research

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“…Election represents a medium for recruitment of political office holders in a democratic setting; the power to participate in a democracy; and a means of accruing legitimacy to government (Dye, 2001). Ojo (2008) sees it as the process of choosing people for particular jobs by voting, or is the process by which a person is brought to an office with due provision for the participation of the people meant to come under the officer in authority. In the political realm, elections are conceived as a formal expression of preferences by the governed, which are then aggregated and transformed into a collective decision about who will govern.…”

Section: Conceptual and Theoretical Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voters Inducement Techniques and the Electoral Process in Nigeria: A Case of the 2017 Osun West Senatorial Bye-Election

Akindele¹

2019

JOSHA

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It is regarded that elections are the litmus test for a true democratic political system, since in democracies, the government derives its legitimacy from the people, and going by this democracy means nothing if the people's will are bought or manoeuvred by inducement. It is an undeniable fact that elections in the country amongst other factors determine on who gets what, when and how, as the political office seekers in the process tend to adopt techniques and strategies to gain the heart of voters. Using primary and secondary data, the paper was anchored on the social exchange theory to examine the nature and the extent of inducement strategies on the outcome of the Osun West senatorial bye election. The study reveals that the nature of inducement took the form of vote-buying and the sharing of other material incentives which influenced the outcome of the bye-election. The paper concluded that voters inducement has been a reoccurring decimal in Nigeria politics and thus suggested that there is the need for some ethical codes to be enacted for all elected officials and political office seekers to prohibit them from exhibiting stupendous wealth which gives negative signal to the people that election to public office gives one the rare opportunity to amass wealth and that political education should be given to the masses so as to bring about attitudinal change on the part of the electorates.

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“…On this note, Ojo (2007b) posited that democracy has an educative value and there is no better way of educating citizens than giving them the opportunity to participate directly in the election of their representatives. And for representative government to be democratic, it must be accompanied by universal free suffrage, elections, short terms of office and individual liberty (Mills, 1975).…”

Section: Successionmentioning

confidence: 99%