ABSTRACT
This work is designed to provide a thorough understanding of political stability in Nigeria, and how good governance enhances political stability. The researcher also chooses Imo State as a case study – the aim of the researcher is to discover the persisting problems of political stability and all the factors that affect good governance. It ensures/covers in details the prospects and basis issues concerning the current election in Nigeria. The method used in writing this is survey techniques which will include questionnaire, news papers and journals.
This work also examines the indices of good governance and factors that led to political instability in Nigeria.
Finally, this project recurred events completely and accurately.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title
page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table
of content
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.3 Objective of the study
1.4 Research questions
1.5 Significance of the study
1.6 Scope of the study
1.7 Limitation of the study
1.8 Definitions of terms
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Literature review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Indices of Good governance
2.3 Causes of political stability in Imo State
2.4 Causes of Political instability in Nigeria
2.5 Cultural Organization and political stability
2.6 Nigeria political instability a myth
or reality
References
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 Research design and methodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Research design
3.3 Sources/Method of data collection
3.4 Population and Sample Size
3.5 Sample Techniques
3.6 Validity and reliability of measuring
instrument
3.7
Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
- Presentation and analysis of data
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Presentation of data
4.3 Analysis of data
4.4 Interpretation of result(s)
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 Summary, conclusion and recommendations
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Summary of findings
5.3 Conclusion
5.4 Recommendations
References
Appendix
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND
OF THE STUDY
The
history of elections in Nigeria
dates back to 1922 when the constitution in operation in the country, when
Clifford constitution of 1922 introduced the elective principals. A Hallmark
was made in the country in 1923 for the first time following the introduction
of the elective principle by the Clifford constitution. Four Nigerians were
elected into the Nigerian legislature council, one to represent Calabar and
three to represent Lagos.
The franchise was limited to about 5,000 adults in Lagos and Calabar with an annual income of
hundred pounds each. The election was contested by less than nine candidates
and between two quasi-political parties, the Nigerian National Democracy Party
(NNDP) and the people’s union.
The election was organized by the
colonial government. the election was also free and fair and the conduct was
peaceful and orderly. The next important election after the 1959 election which
ushered in the constitutional settlement for an independent Nigeria, the first ever direct
election covering the country. Three
political parties emerged during this period and participated in the
election.
The National Council of Nigeria Citizens
(NCNC) formerly known as the National Council of Nigerians and Cameroons which
was the first modern political party in West Africa
was formed in 1914 and led by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Action Group (AG) was
formed in 1951 under the leadership of chief Obafemi Awolowo, and the Northern
People’s Congress (NPC) was formed in December 1949 under the leadership of
Alhaji Ahmadu Bello. In 1959 election, the NPC won 80 seats which the AG won 73
seats. This election was also supervised by the colonial master. It was
relatively peaceful and orderly. 1960 – 166, during this period, elections were
held on 1961, 1963, 1965, regional elections and 1964/65 federal election. The
most crucial elections of 1965, two broad coalitions contested the 1964 federal
election. The Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) made up of the Northern People Congress
(NNPC) and the Nigeria National Democratic Party (NNDP) a break away of
the Action Group (AG), the dominant
party in western Nigeria
and the United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA) made up of the United middle
belt congress, the National Council of Nigeria Citizens (NCNC) and the Action
Group. The election was rigged and different kinds of electoral malpractices
were witnessed. The United Progressive Grand Alliance leaders claimed that many
campaigning and that some of them were kidnapped.
1985 – 1993 for the third time in Nigeria’s
political history a transition programme aimed at an orderly chance of not just
a government but a whole regime type is being consciously and assiduously
pursued by an incumbent government. the first and second transition programmes
were from colonial regime to an independent democratic regime in the later
fifties to October 1960, and from a military dictatorship to a democracy in the
late seventies respectively.
Neither attempts at establishing a last
democracy succeeded beyond six (6) years. The first attempt lasted from October
1960 to January 1966, while the second lasted from October 1979 to December
1983. It is at this last point that informed the present administration’s
decision to introduce a transition programme that is both extensive (its time
span is the longest in the history of transition programmes not just in Nigeria
but in African continent).
Today, Nigeria is undergoing another transition to civil rule programme and questions bound as to whether the nascent third republic will be a success or failure given in the country’s economic incapacitation, the increasing personification of the downward movement of the people’s social conditions. The unmistakable crisis in the country’s education system, the prevalence of thuggery and electoral malpractices, the recurrence of ethnic religious clashes and the fact that “every good soldier who is advancing in his profession now hopes to end that career in a political office or headship of one civilian institution or the other inter alla.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
ENHANCING POLITICAL STABILITY IN NIGERIA THROUGH GOOD GOVERNANCE (A CASE STUDY OF IMO STATE)
