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The Role Of Foreign Election Observers In Democratic Elections In Nigeria
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This paper is about the role of foreign election observers in democratic elections in Nigeria: a case study of the 2015 presidential elections. The conduct of the 2015 Presidential election in Nigeria recorded mixed outcomes. Although fears that Election Day would be marred by serious violence were allayed to a large extent, some instances of technical hitches, vote buying and other forms of electoral manipulations were recorded in some parts. However, these electoral hitches were not sufficient to alter the expected outcome of the election. For the first time in Nigeria’s political history, an incumbent president lost power in a general election. Has Nigeria’s democracy consolidated satisfactorily? The burden of this paper is to examine the trajectories of the 2015 presidential election relying on both qualitative and quantitative methods of research. The paper concludes that much has to be done if Nigeria’s democracy is to scale the second turn-over test Huntington establishes as the bench mark which if a new democracy survives two turnovers of power, then it has consolidated satisfactorily. By all indices, the election was adjudged free and fair, this much was attested to by international election monitoring teams that monitored the exercised and confirmed that despite few glitches, the exercise met with international best practice.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]The presence of international
observers has been witnessed during elections in Nigeria, and the last
election which was held in 2015 was not an exemption. According to INEC,
107 election observers were accredited to monitor the 2015 elections.
Examples of the group includeInternational Republican Institute
(IRI),theEuropean Union Election Observation Mission and National
Democratic Institute (NDI). The leader of one of the groups, NDI to be
precise commented on how participatory Ni ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]The presence of international
observers has been witnessed during elections in Nigeria, and the last
election which was held in 2015 was not an exemption. According to INEC,
107 election observers were accredited to monitor the 2015 elections.
Examples of the group includeInternational Republican Institute
(IRI),theEuropean Union Election Observation Mission and National
Democratic Institute (NDI). The leader of one of the groups, NDI to be
precise commented on how participatory Ni ... Continue reading---
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