The Role Of Political Parties’s In Democratic Governance In Nigeria

The Role Of Political Parties’s In Democratic Governance In Nigeria

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

Popular governance with its ideal of optional representation, freedom of choice of leaders, rule of law, freedom of expression, responsibility etc has come the respectable system of government each over the world. It’s a form of government in which the supreme power of a political community rest on popular sovereignty. According to oyovbaire( 1987) republic as a system of government seeks to realize a generally honored common good through a collaborative inauguration and discussion of policy questions concerning public affairs and which delegate authority to agent to apply the broad opinions made by the people through maturity vote. therefore, in contemporary times, republic has been appertained to as the expression of popular will of the political community through tagged representatives. The contemporary republic according to Raphael( 1976) rest on representativegovernment.Democratic governance in Nigeria has been a different thing when compared to what’s accessible in other part of the world. The respect for mortal right and the rule law which are the main features of republic aren’t visible especially between 1999 and 2007; election apparel and hooliganism is the order of the day that one can hardly separate between popular government and authoritarianism.

In ultramodern societies, political parties are veritably essential to political process. They’ve come veritable instrument or adjunct of republic in any popular system. Political parties aren’t only instrument for landing political power, but they’re also vehicles for the aggregation of interests and ultimate satisfaction of similar interests through the control of government. Obviously political parties are pivotal to the food of popular governance. As Agbaje( 1999) notes that the extent to which political parties aggregate freely, eloquent, represent and organize determines the position of responsibility in public life including access to and use of power as well as political performance. Merkel( 197799) epitomized the introductory functions of political parties as follows

Reclamation and selection of leadership labor force for government services

Generation of programmes and programs for government

Collaboration and control of governmental organs

Social integration through satisfaction and conciliation of group demands or the provision of common belief system or testament

Social integration of individualities by rallying of support and by socialization.

Generally, political parties are veritably essential to popular governance. It constitutes a central instrument of popular governance. It provides the means of promoting responsibility, collaborative action, popular participation, inclusiveness, legality and responsibility through the integration of their contending principles, testaments and pretensions for eventual control of the government in the state. Political parties are the intermediate institution

interceding the affairs of both the people and labor force and agencies that exercise state power.

In Nigeria, the political parties generally are formed along ethnical, artistic, geo political and religious lines. In everyday conditioning of government one notices the fostering of early commitment similar as ethnical sensivity and overt protuberance of other selfish political tendencies as a result, the political class has always remained bereft of feasible political testament on which the nation’s political future could be anchored. The ruin in testament and vision has reduced party politics to a chuck and adulation game where monetization of political process is the bedrock of fidelity and support. This has eroded the end of the popular system.

Since military disentangled from political power in may 1999, the PDP has dominated governance in Nigeria. After eight times of the party in government which earned the respect and admiration of utmost Nigerian electorates at the pates due to its programmes and programs, the party is despised in the country. The average Nigeria encounters frustration,

disillusionment and sickie moral disturbance owing to the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) government to deliver the anticipated tips ofdemocracy.The task of this exploration is to examine the part of the ruling PDP in the popular governance in Nigeria’s fourth democracy between( 1999- 2007).

Statement Of The Problem

The emergence of popular governance in Nigerian political system in 1999 was a land mark in the political development of Nigeria. After fifteen times of patient absolutism, the return of republic was entered with pump and peagentry by civil societies, labour union, civil rights association etc. Hope was veritably high in the area of mortal right which was fully absent during the absolutism rule.

It was anticipated that the tip of republic would be realized through the political parties which are the means through which the

politician reach the public and make their pledges and manifestoes available to thepeople.This exploration thus focuses on probing the part of Nigerian political parties in popular governance since 1999- 2007 with emphasis on PDP. The disquisition would be guided by the following exploration questions

1. How does the circumstance leading to the emergence and conformation of political parties ’ impact on internal republic in the party?

2. Did the programmes enhance popular governance in Nigeria between 1999 and 2007?

3. How were these programmes enforced to give good governance to the people of Nigeria?

Ideal Of The Study

The purpose of the study is to punctuate the part of political parties in popular government with the ruling PDP as a case study( 1999- 2007).

The study will critically dissect the issues as follows

1. To examine the circumstance leading to the conformation of political party and its impact on internal republic of the party.

2. To examine the programmes of the party with a view of establishing their applicability to popular governance.

3. To determine whether these programmes and programs were enforced with a view to enhance popular governance.

Exploration Suppositions

For the successful completion of the study, the following exploration suppositions were formulated by the experimenter;

H0 there is no circumstance leading to the conformation of political party and its impact on internal republic of the party.

H1 there’s circumstance leading to the conformation of political party and its impact on internal republic of the party.

H02 Programmes and programs weren’t enforced with a view to enhance popular governance

H2 Programmes and programs were enforced with a view to enhance popular governance

Significance Of The Study

This work has two aspect of significance originally, it’ll theoretically increase the being body of knowledge in the education on political parties and popular governance in Nigeria.

Secondly, the exploration will virtually be of 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.

Inversely, the study will serve as a donation to the measures to be taken to enhance sustainable republic in Nigeria.

Eventually the study will serve as a provocation for farther inquiry in the area of political parties and governance in Nigeria.

Compass And Limitation Of The Study

The compass of the study covers the part of political parties in popular governance in Nigeria. The experimenter encounters some constrain which limited the compass of the study;

a) Vacuity OF RESEARCH MATERIAL The exploration material available to the experimenter is inadequate, thereby limiting the study

b) TIME The time frame allocated to the study doesn’t enhance wider content as the experimenter has to combine other academic conditioning and examinations with the study.

c) Organizational sequestration Limited Access to the named auditing establishment makes it delicate to get all the necessary and required information concerning the conditioning.

Description Of Terms

POLITICAL PARTY A political party is a group of people who come together to dispute choices and hold power in the government. The party agrees on some proposed programs and programmes, with a view to promoting the collaborative good or incubating their sympathizers’ interests.

DAMOCRACYDemocracy, in ultramodern operation, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or handpick representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, similar as a congress.

GOVERNANCE Governance is all of the processes of governing, whether accepted by a government, request or network, whether over a family, lineage, formal or informal association or home and whether through the laws, morals, power or language of an systematized society.

Association Of The Study

This exploration work is organized in five chapters, for easy understanding, as follows

Chapter one is concern with the preface, which correspond of the( overview, of the study), literal background, statement of problem, objects of the study, exploration suppositions, significance of the study, compass and limitation of the study, description of terms and literal background of the study. Chapter two highlights the theoretical frame on which the study is grounded, therefore the review of affiliated literature. Chapter three deals on the exploration design and methodology espoused in the study. Chapter four concentrate on the data collection and analysis and donation of finding. Chapter five gives summary, conclusion, and recommendations made of the study.