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CONDUCTION OF ELECTIONS
IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Election is an integral part of a democratic process that
enables the citizenry determine fairly and freely who should lead them at every
level of government periodically and take decisions that shape their socio-economic
and political destiny; and in case they falter, still possess the power to
recall them or vote them out in the next election. This was Obakhedo, (2011)
aptly defined election thus: Election is a major instrument for the recruitment
of political leadership in democratic societies; the key to participation in a
democracy; and the way of giving consent to government (Dye, 2001); and
allowing the governed to choose and pass judgment on office holders who
theoretically represent the governed Obakhedo, (2011). In its strictest sense,
there can never be a democracy without election. Huntington is however quick to
point out that, a political system is democratic ‘to the extent that its most
powerful collective decision-makers are selected through fair, honest and
periodic elections in which candidates freely compete for votes, and in which
virtually all the adult population is eligible to vote’ (Huntington, 1991). In
its proper sense, election is a process of selecting the officers or
representatives of an organization or group by the vote of its qualified
members (Nwolise, 2007). Anifowose (2003) defined elections as the process of
elite selection by the mass of the population in any given political system,
Bamgbose (2012). Elections provide the medium by which the different interest
groups within the bourgeois nation state can stake and resolve their claims to
power through peaceful means (Iyayi, 2005). Elections therefore determine the
rightful way of ensuring that responsible leaders take over the mantle of power.
An election itself is a procedure by which the electorate, or
part of it, choose the people who hold public office and exercise some degree
of control over the elected officials. It is the process by which the people
select and control their representatives. The implication of this is that
without election, there can be no representative government. This assertion is,
to a large extent, correct as an election is, probably, the most reliable means
through which both the government and representatives can be made responsible
to the people who elect them.
Eya (2003) however, sees election as the selection of a
person or persons for office as by ballot and making choice as between
alternatives. Ozor (2009) succinctly gives a more encompassing and comprehensive
definition of election when he noted that the term connotes the procedure
through which qualified adult voters elect their politically preferred
representatives to parliament legislature of a county (or any other public
positions) for the purpose of farming and running the government of the
country. Thus Osumah (2002) elucidates what the basic objective of election is
which is to select the official decision makers who are supposed to represent
citizens-interest. Elections, according to him extend and enhance the amount of
popular participation in the political system. However, elections in Nigeria
has always been marred by violence and heightened sense of national insecurity
because of the level of tribal and religion sentiments showed by the country men.
Nigeria’s 2015 general elections the fifth since 1999, was
scheduled for 14th and 28th February 2015 respectively and later changed to
28th March and 11 April 2015 respectively. All 36 states held presidential,
federal parliament and House of Assemblies (state parliaments) elections.
Gubernatorial polls were held in 29 states. General elections in Nigeria have
always been turbulent and violent affairs. Indeed, the 2007 election polls was
widely condemned as the most violent, poorly and massively rigged in the
history of Nigeria’s electoral history. Even the winner of the presidential
pool, a person of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, conceded flaws. Some
analysts and observers considered the April 2011 elections as the most credible
since the return to democracy, unlike 2007 elections where over 1,000 people
were killed in post-election protests. Nigeria has had a checkered electoral
history with successive elections being marred by serious irregularities and
controversy- particularly in the conduct of its electoral commission. This has
led in some cases to the collapsed of democratic experiments as occurred in
1966 and 1983. The 2007 general elections in Nigeria provided a good
opportunity to occasion a break with the past and rekindle public confidence in
the electoral and democratic process of the country. However, this was not to
be as the elections, according to several local and international observers
turned out to be the worst in Nigeria’s political history (European Union:
2007, Human Rights Watch: 2007, Transition Monitoring Group: 2007).
Like its predecessors, INEC was accused of not being able to
engender public confidence in the electoral process or organize transparent and
credible elections. Unfortunately, this position has scarcely been demonstrated
in a systematic manner.
March 28th and April 11th 2015 election marked another turn
in Nigeria’s democratic history as registered voters took to the polls to elect
the next set of leaders into the Presidential and National Assembly positions.
The elections, conducted in the thirty six states of the country and the
Federal Capital Territory, witnessed the emergence of the opposition party, the
All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate. This outcome was also the
first time an opposition party would unseat the ruling party, People Democratic
Party (PDP) since Nigeria’s transition into civil rule in 1999.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The cornerstone of competitive elections and democracy is
free and fair election. The credibility and legitimacy accorded an election
victory is determined by the extent to which the process is free and fair
(Garuba, 2007;Bogaards, 2007). Free and fair election serves the purpose of
legitimizing such government. In fact, the quality of elections is part of the
criteria for assessing the level of consolidation of new democracies. Elections
are therefore considered as vital and indispensable for determining the
democratic nature of a political system and ensuring national security. When
election is not managed quite satisfactorily, it can pave the way for deeper
ethnic and regional divisions, lost of legitimacy of elected authorities,
protest, violent contestation, social explosion, and doubt about institutions,
violence, and instability or even threaten the entire democratization process.
In fact, poor management of elections is a real and prolific source of
conflicts, violence, insecurity and instability (Hounkpe & Gueye, 2010).Low
turnout in the 2015 compared to 2011 may be attributed to some factors. First,
it might be an indication that previous election results were inflated. Second,
there was a heightened sense of insecurity. among Nigerians, with causes such
as the Boko Haram insurgency in the North, the possibility of the incumbent not
willing to accept the outcome of the election should it not be in its favour,
the effects of the election postponement, Also, there is the perception that
‘votes do not count’ and that the outcomes have been pre-decided by an elite
minority. However, this study is examining the electoral process and national
security comparing the 2011 and the 2015 general elections.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The following are the objectives of this study:
To examine the relationship between electoral process and
national security in Nigeria.
To examine the differences and similarity in the 2011 and
2015 general elections processes in Nigeria.
To examine the factors that promotes national security in an
electoral process.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What is the relationship between electoral process and
national security in Nigeria?
What are the differences and similarities in the 2011 and
2015 general elections processes in Nigeria?
What are the factors that promote national security in an
electoral process?
1.5 HYPOTHESIS
HO: There is no significant relationship between electoral
process and national security
HA: There is significant relationship between electoral
process and national security
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The following are the significance of this study:
The outcome of this study will educate the general public on
the relationship between electoral process and national security. It will also
educate on the differences and similarities in the 2011 and 2015 general
elections in Nigeria.
This research will be a contribution to the body of
literature in the area of the effect of personality trait on student’s academic
performance, thereby constituting the empirical literature for future research
in the subject area.
1.7 SCOPE/LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
This study will cover the issues of electoral process and
national security with focus on comparison between 2011 and 2015 general
elections in Nigeria
1.8 LIMITATION OF STUDY
Financial constraint- Insufficient fund tends to impede the
efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature
or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire
and interview).
Time constraint- The researcher will simultaneously engage in
this study with other academic work. This consequently will cut down on the time
devoted for the research work
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