IDRIS AKINADE examines party politics as the political field gets hotter in preparation for the 2019 general elections.
A political party is a tool and an important ingredient in participatory democracy. Without party politics, democracy remains a mirage.Every democracy, great or emerging, through the operators of the system, encourage the formation of political parties to provide a level playground for all parties to field their candidates for an election. Nigeria in this regards is no exception. Prior to Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Nigeria had experienced forms of party politics and representative government from 1922, with the advent of the Clifford constitution, which permitted and gave rise to the formation of the first political party in the country, Nigerian National Democratic Party, NNDP, on June 24, 1923 by Herbert Macaulay. Subsequent upon that, other parties emerged and this development laid the foundation for party politics and, elections into political posts,…
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