Is Election a Disadvantage? Nigerian Local Councils and Security Provision

Ojebode, Ayobami; Onyishi, Ike E.; Aremu, Fatai Ayinde

doi:10.19088/1968-2017.115

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“…Nwanna, (2014),Gambo, (2015) Ojebode et al (2017,Olaniyi (2017) and Sambo & Sule, 2020 except that they have not captured the situation after the 2019 General Election and that the methodology used by all the above studies and the theoretical framework all differ from what this work presented.…”

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“…The local government elections are reported as an avenue for massive irregularities and violence where state governors dictate to the teeming voters in rural areas who shall win or lost (Gambo, 2015). A disconnect is established between people in grassroots and politicians at the national level because the local government elections are an appointment made by state governors disenfranchising the people at the grassroots from participation (Ojebode et al 2017). In this case, decentralisation is not advantageous at all to the people in rural areas, concluded Ojebode et al (2017).…”

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“…This study limits the analysis to the LG polls conducted only in post-2019 General Election. This is because some studies (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 1999;Nwanna, 2010;Olasupo & Fayomi, 2012;Nwanna, 2014;Gambo, 2015;Ojebode et al 2017;Olaniyi, 2017;Commonwealth, 2019;Sambo &Sule, 2020 andOluwasuji &Okajare, 2021), examined previous LG elections and the fraud attached to them to a lesser extent. This study periscope through the past investigations and discovered that not much attention is paid on the aspect of electoral fraud at the grassroots level and particularly after the 2019 General Election.…”

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Unmasking the Tape of Electoral Fraud in Grassroots Nigeria: Evidence from the Management of the Local Council Elections by the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs)

Deribe¹,

Sambo²,

Sule³

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Middle East Res J Humanities Soc Sci

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Electoral fraud is identified as an albatross on genuine democratisation in Nigerian politics. The Nigerian political culture demonstrates a zero-sum game where a winner takes all and where a winner employs all amoral ineptitude to secure victory. The situation is escalated at the grassroots level in the country where the constitutional three-tier of the federal, state and local system was bastardised by the states who succeeded in emasculating the local governments under their absolute personal control. The local council polls usually turned into a charade that is perpetuated by charlatans in the name of elections where in reality, forceful imposition, selection and subversion of the process became the order of the day. The study examined how the use of SIECs aided the phenomenon of electoral fraud at the grassroots level where the local council elections are designed and arrested by state governors based on their selfish desire. The study utilised both primary and secondary sources of data. The data obtained were analysed and interpreted using mixed method of statistical tools and content analysis. The study discovered that the SIECs became tools in the pawn of the state governors that they leveraged in manipulating the local government elections against the will of the electorates at the grassroots and that has tremendously affects the democratisation process in the country where authentic institutional building remains a mirage even after more than 20 years of democratic experiment. The study recommends that the SIECs should be abrogated and the INEC should conduct the local council elections together with the national elections at the same time.

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Unmasking the Tape of Electoral Fraud in Grassroots Nigeria: Evidence from the Management of the Local Council Elections by the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs)

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“…The aim of the Nigeria's Constitution is apparent that political leaders of the local government councils must emerge through elections (Ojebode, Onyishi & Aremu, 2017). Based Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution, it is compulsory for the local council's governance to be based on democratic tenets.…”

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Safeguarding Democratically Elected Local Government Councils In Nigeria From Abuse

Aliyu¹,

Abdullah²,

Anuar³

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Brosio (2000). Cote d'Ivoire initially adopted a model of deconcentration (see Blundo 1998a).6 As of 2017(Ojebode et al 2017).7 Mathieu and Yilmaz(2010, 331).8 Mongbo(2008, 50).9 World Bank (June 2019).220 Institutional Congruence beyond Senegal of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/0E4AA5E35ABAA499C145BE7E020D51E0 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core.…”

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Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics

Wilfahrt

2022

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Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? Looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa, this book advances a novel answer to this question: Communities are better able to coordinate around basic service delivery when their formal jurisdictional boundaries overlap with informal social institutions, or norms. This book identifies the precolonial past as the driver of striking subnational variation in the present because these social institutions only encompass the many villages of the local state in areas that were once home to precolonial polities. Drawing on a multi-method research design, the book develops and tests a theory of institutional congruence to document how the past shapes contemporary elite approaches to redistribution within the local state. Where precolonial kingdoms left behind collective identities and dense social networks, local elites find it easier to cooperate following decentralization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Is Election a Disadvantage? Nigerian Local Councils and Security Provision

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Unmasking the Tape of Electoral Fraud in Grassroots Nigeria: Evidence from the Management of the Local Council Elections by the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs)

Unmasking the Tape of Electoral Fraud in Grassroots Nigeria: Evidence from the Management of the Local Council Elections by the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs)

Safeguarding Democratically Elected Local Government Councils In Nigeria From Abuse

Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics

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