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Electoral Processes And National Security
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This paper examined electoral processes and security challenges in Nigeria with specific reference to the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections. The data for this study were drawn mostly from secondary sources. Systematically, the paper reviewed the conceptions of electoral violence, perspectives on election related violence and security of lives and properties in Nigeria. The major findings of this study reveal that from the 1950s, elections in Nigeria approximated a war that is often waged to determine political power. All weapons are always available for politicians in Nigeria to use religion, ethnic sentiments, outright bribery, the power of incumbency, corruption, the abuse of electoral processes, etc. to unleash violence and threaten the security of lives and properties in the country in such a way that in such election-related crises, it is estimated that over 10,000 Nigerians have lost their lives, hundreds of thousands have been displaced while properties worth billions destroyed during pre-election, election and post-election period. The study deployed the qualitative historical research method to carry out its analysis, which implied the use of the descriptive analytical tool where data were drawn from secondary sources.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Following the announcement of the result of the 2011 Presidential
election which saw to the re-election of the incumbent, Goodluck
Jonathan candidate for the ruling People’s Democratic Party, violence
began with widespread protests by the supporters of the main opposition
candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)
challenging the results. The protest generated into sectarian violence
and killings by the Almajiri (Sanghaya School Students) in the Nor ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Following the announcement of the result of the 2011 Presidential
election which saw to the re-election of the incumbent, Goodluck
Jonathan candidate for the ruling People’s Democratic Party, violence
began with widespread protests by the supporters of the main opposition
candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)
challenging the results. The protest generated into sectarian violence
and killings by the Almajiri (Sanghaya School Students) in the Nor ... Continue reading---
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