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| DEMOCRACY AND 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA: QUESTIONING THE UNQUESTIONABLE
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Prof. B.O.G. Nwanolue, OSUCHUKWU, Nkechi Cynthia (Ph.D), Mbah, Clement Chukwu (Ph.D), UDEGBUNAM, Cyprian Uche
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Abstract:
Democracy is a socio- economic and political formation whereby the adult citizens are granted the fair opportunity to participate in governance of their country has indeed become increasingly decimative in both its operation, functionability and other attendant mechanisms for actualizing free and fair political elections in Nigeria. The 2015 general elections in Nigeria had been executed and winners emerged but with some degrees of electoral unprocedurality, hence tagging a very big question of integrity, transparency and responsibility for the election under review. Therefore, this paper examined the 2015 Nigerian general elections in the backdrop of the democratic procedurality and development. Data for this paper where generated from secondary sources of recorded human documents. We adopted the theory of democratic development as our analytical framework. Again, our research design was based ex-post facto modern of analysis. Indeed, the 2015 general elections in Nigeria were legally, technically, institutionally and procedurally negated by some electoral irregularities that generated certain unaddressed questions in the annals of Nigerian political history. These would not only orchestrate developmental inertia but would remain a recurring decimal in Nigeria's electoral history.
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