Political Parties And Their Role In The Development Of Nigerias Democracy

Political Parties And Their Role In The Development Of Nigerias Democracy

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

Political parties are critical to the political process in contemporary societies. In each popular society, they’ve evolved into a genuine tool or supplementary of republic. Political parties aren’t only vehicles for the aggregation of interests and the eventual fulfillment of similar interests through the control of government; they’re also vehicles for the aggregation of interests and the ultimate satisfaction of similar interests through the control of government( Merkel, 1977). Political parties are, without a mistrustfulness, essential to the survival of popular administration. According to Ajayi( 2005), the quantum of responsibility in public life, including access to and use of power, is determined by the freedom with which political parties collect, express, represent, and organize. Political parties are, in general, essential to popular administration. It serves as a pivotal tool for popular government. Through the junction of their opposing beliefs, testaments, and bournes for ultimate control of the government in the state, it offers a way of establishing responsibility, collaborative action, public engagement, addition, legality, and responsibility. Political parties are the central reality that mediates the affairs of the people as well as governmental workers and agencies.

Popular administration, with its ideals of tagged representation, freedom of choice of leaders, rule of law, freedom of speech, and responsibility, has come the world’s most popular form of government. It’s a type of governance in which a political community’s ultimate authority is grounded on popular sovereignty. Republic, according to oyovbaire( 1987), is a form of government that aims to achieve a generally honored common good through the collaborative inauguration and discussion of policy questions concerning public affairs, as well as the delegation of authority to agents to carry out the people’s broad opinions reached by maturity vote. In ultramodern times, republic has been defined as the expression of the political community’s public will via tagged representatives. According to Raphael( 1976), emblematic governance is the foundation of ultramodern republic. When compared to what’s available in other corridor of the globe, Nigerian popular governance has been unique. The primary aspects of republic, similar as respect for mortal rights and the rule of law, aren’t apparent, particularly between 1999 and 2007; election fraud and hooliganism are so common that it’s delicate to distinguish between popular and autocratic governments( Osaghae, 2002). Political parties in Nigeria are frequently innovated along ethnical, artistic, geopolitical, and religious grounds. As a result, the political class has always been devoid of feasible political testament on which the nation’s political future could be anchored in everyday government conditioning, similar as ethnical perceptivity and overt protuberance of other selfish political tendencies. As a result, the political class has always been devoid of feasible political testament on which the nation’s political future could be anchored. Party politics has been reduced to a chuck – and- adulation game where commercialization of the political process is the base of fidelity and support due to a lack of gospel and vision. The popular system’s thing has been weakened as a result of this.

Statement of the problem

In 1999, the emergence of popular government in Nigeria’s political system marked a turning point in the country’s political history. Civil society, labor unions, civil rights associations, and others ate there-modelling of republic with joy and peagentry after fifteen times of despotism( Agarwal, 1994). In the sphere of mortal rights, which had been nearly absent under the absolutism’s term, there was a lot of sanguinity. The popular tip was intended to be achieved via political parties, which are the vehicles through which politicians communicate with the public and make their pledges and manifestos accessible to them. This exploration thus focuses on Political parties and their part in the development of Nigeria s republic.

Ideal Of The Study

The primary ideal of the study is as follows

1. To estimate the factors that led to the emergence of political parties in Nigeria.

2. To probe the challenges political parties face in contributing to the development of Nigeria republic.

3. To find out the reasons why political parties are formed.

4. To examine strategies that can be used to strengthen Nigeria republic.

Exploration Questions

The following questions have been prepared for this study

1) What are the factors that led to the emergence of political parties in Nigeria?

2) What are the challenges political parties face in contributing to the development of Nigeria republic?

3) What are the reasons why political parties are formed?

4) What are strategies that can be used to strengthen Nigeria republic?

Significance of the study

This study focuses on political parties and their part in the development of Nigeria s republic. Hence the study is significant as it’ll relate the immense value to political leaders and policy makers in Nigeria and will also enlighten and educate the millions on responsibility of parties in popular governance by so doing; it’ll go a long way in furnishing practical result to some of the problems of political parties in Nigeria popular system.

The study is also significant to the academic community as it’ll contribute to the being literature.

compass of the study

The study will estimate the factors that led to the emergence of political parties in Nigeria. The study will also probe the challenges political parties face in contributing to the development of Nigeria republic. The study will further find out the reasons why political parties are formed. Incipiently, the study will examine strategies that can be used to strengthen Nigeria republic. Hence the study will be demarcated to Labour party Ondo state.

Limitation of the study

This study was constrained by a number of factors which are as follows

just like any other exploration, ranging from attainability of demanded accurate accoutrements on the content under study, incapability to get data

Financial constraint, was faced by the experimenter, in getting applicable accoutrements and in printing and collation of questionnaires

Time factor time factor disguise another constraint since having to shuttle between jotting of the exploration and also engaging in other academic work making it uneasy for the experimenter

Description Of Terms

Political party an association that coordinates campaigners to contend in a particular country’s choices.

Democracy a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, generally through tagged representatives