BibTex RIS Cite

ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA

Year 2016, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 251 - 268, 01.06.2016

Abstract

This paper examined the military as an institution and its role in democratic succession in Nigeria. The paper articulated on how various republics in Nigeria failed and what role the military played during these periods. The study relied mainly on secondary data sources, which includes periodicals and other archival documents that provided the required information for the discourse. Data gathered were analyzed through content analysis. Critical and logical analysis of data attested that the military had played the role of distractive force in Nigeria’s democratization process. The military institution presented itself and acted in most occasions as a false custodian of democratic principles by initiating and implementing flawed elections for transition. However, emerging facts further suggest that these democratic principles and arrangements put in place by the military were usually faulty and inadequate for sustainable democratic governance to thrive on. Most general elections organized by the military to transit power have been descriptive of milidemocray, where previous military officers acquire democratic power through stage managed processes. The military institution therefore has functioned as a partisan organisation where various acts of election packaging were learnt and electioneering overtures acquired, despite its instrumental role in sustaining democracy in the country. This paper therefore concludes that the military has been more of a distractive than consolidation force of democratic transitions, and free and fair elections in Nigeria democracy, since her independence

Year 2016, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 251 - 268, 01.06.2016

Abstract

There are 0 citations in total.

Details

Other ID JA26TN64KK
Journal Section Articles
Authors

E. E. Obioha This is me

Publication Date June 1, 2016
Published in Issue Year 2016 Volume: 8 Issue: 1

Cite

APA Obioha, E. E. (2016). ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies, 8(1), 251-268.
AMA Obioha EE. ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA. IJ-SSHS. June 2016;8(1):251-268.
Chicago Obioha, E. E. “ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA”. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies 8, no. 1 (June 2016): 251-68.
EndNote Obioha EE (June 1, 2016) ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies 8 1 251–268.
IEEE E. E. Obioha, “ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA”, IJ-SSHS, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 251–268, 2016.
ISNAD Obioha, E. E. “ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA”. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies 8/1 (June 2016), 251-268.
JAMA Obioha EE. ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA. IJ-SSHS. 2016;8:251–268.
MLA Obioha, E. E. “ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA”. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2016, pp. 251-68.
Vancouver Obioha EE. ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND SUCCESSION IN NIGERIA. IJ-SSHS. 2016;8(1):251-68.