ELECTORAL VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA, A STUDY OF KOGI EAST SENATORIAL DISTRICT (2011-2019)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to investigate electoral violence and democracy in Nigeria: A study of Kogi East Senatorial District covering from 2011 to 2019. Four research questions were raised and four hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The researcher employed descriptive survey research design. The sample of the study consists of three hundred and eighty-four (384) respondents. Self-structured questionnaire was used as instrument of the study. Simple percentage and frequency was used to answer the research questions while chi-square was used in testing the hypotheses. It was discovered from the findings that there has never been free and fair elections in Kogi State; there is no legitimate government in Kogi State; that rule of law is not appropriately maintained in the state; that youths who are not gainfully employed are recruited as thugs to carryout electoral violence and that weak democratic institutions, godfatherism, power of incumbency, monetized electoral politics, poor judicial system, inefficient electoral commission and ethnicity are the causes of electoral violence in the state. It was recommended amongst other that electorates should be allowed to elect their political leaders through free and fair elections, there should be enhanced political education. Political education will inculcate a new value and ethics in the minds of the people.
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