Nigeria's democratic transition: Explaining the annulled 1993 presidential election

Nwokedi, Emeka

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“…In his annual year-end report on the United State legal system, Warren Burger had called for a national correctional policy particularly during times of rapidly increasing prisoner's populations and prison overcrowding [26,27].…”

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Problems and Prospects of Administration of Nigerian Prison: Need for Proper Rehabilitation of the Inmates in Nigeria Prisons

Onyekachi¹

2016

J Tourism Hospit

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Problems and Prospects of Administration of Nigerian Prison: Need for Proper Rehabilitation of the Inmates in Nigeria Prisons

Onyekachi¹

2016

J Tourism Hospit

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“…Another Yorùbá adage: pàtẹpàtẹ ni yó kù, b'ọ ́jà bá tú, yóò ku pàtẹpàtẹ (the hawker's fate, in terms of loss or profit, is determined at the end of each market session) offers an appropriate explanation in this respect. Similarly, various events that played out during the struggles for the actualization of Chief M. K. O. Abiola's mandate by pro-democracy organizations following a free, fair and credible presidential election held on June 12, 1993 have been well documented in the annals of Nigeria's political history (Nwokedi 1994;Muse & Narsiah 2015). More importantly are the reports of the infamous betrayals and treasonable acts committed by associates and relatives of Chief Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the election.…”

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Viewing the African Political Leadership Challenge through the Lens of Music Drama: Reflections on Duro Ladipo’s Ọba Kòso

Samuel

2022

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In response to the question of the relevance of ‘classical’ African Studies to the contemporary need of the continent, this article explores the dynamics of leadership challenge as portrayed in Yorùbá music drama genre, using Duro Ladipo’s most popular folk opera: Ọba Kòso (The king did not hang) as a case study. Thematic exploration of the opera was carried out to establish the linkages between leaders’ (characters’) traits and styles as portrayed in the play, and Nigeria’s political leaders’ engagement and responses to social contracts with their citizens. By comparing the outcomes of the actions, inactions and (in) decisions of Nigeria’s political leaders and the attendant consequences on their subjects with those found in the opera. I argue that the African political leadership challenge is shaped by a combination of complex factors, including the leaders’ charisma and the quality of citizens’ engagements in the affairs of governance. These are largely occasioned by multiple effects of torrential and irresistible mob pressures on leaders. At the fringes of the debacle is a convergence of human fate and other coincidental elements within the various sites of the divide in the contestation for and utilization of power as a whole.

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“…And these military regimes all had different transition to civil rule program often altered by their successive regime. Political culture of the masses as Nwokedi (1994) pointed out also assist in the disruption of democratic transition in Nigeria. The massive post-election demonstrations that accompanied the 1966 national elections believed to have been rigged in favor of the ruling Northern People's Congress (NPC) resulted in political tension and conflicts across the western region of the country thus creating the opportunity for military to intervene in politics.…”

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Political Culture and Democratic Transition in West Africa: The Nigerian Experience

Baba¹

2015

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The transfer of political power from one civilian regime to another in West Africa have often been accompanied by violence promoted by desires of parties in power to consolidate their grips on power and by opposition parties interest to capture same by hook or crook in some other cases. The attitudes of the electorates of making themselves available to the politicians to be use in promoting elections and post-election violence itself is not helping the development of democracy and party politics in the west Africa. Conducted with the use of quantitative research methodology, this essay examines the relationship between political culture and democratic transition in West Africa. It examines the political behaviors and attitudes of people in the region towards transfer of political power from one to another civilian regime. Experiences gathered from such development in Nigeria were also examined in the study. The work also examines the need for attitudinal and paradigm shift in relations to democratic transition in West Africa and Nigeria in particular. What causes election and post-election violence, how are these violence sponsored and why should these conflicts be avoided are some of the major questions examined in this work. The work is also written with ideas drawn from the works of great comparative and behaviorists Political Scholars like Gabriel Almond,

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Nigeria's democratic transition: Explaining the annulled 1993 presidential election

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Problems and Prospects of Administration of Nigerian Prison: Need for Proper Rehabilitation of the Inmates in Nigeria Prisons

Problems and Prospects of Administration of Nigerian Prison: Need for Proper Rehabilitation of the Inmates in Nigeria Prisons

Viewing the African Political Leadership Challenge through the Lens of Music Drama: Reflections on Duro Ladipo’s Ọba Kòso

Political Culture and Democratic Transition in West Africa: The Nigerian Experience

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