Browsing by Author "Olorunsuwa E.O."

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    Executive-Judiciary Conflict in Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Implication for Democratic Consolidation
    (Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, 2020-02-22) Olorunsuwa E.O.; Bot M.D.; Oko L.I.
    Nigeria has being faced with numerous challenges since her return to civil rule on the 29 of May, 1999; while some of these challenges are carried over from the military era, a few are new and as such are linked with the new democratic regime in the country. Peculiar attention has being taken by issues of inter-governmental conflicts as well as conflicts involving various arms of government. States machineries have at some times being grounded on the bases of tortuous conflicts between the three arms and tiers of government alike. Of particular interest is the issue of disharmony and conflict involving the arms of government especially the executive and judiciary arms of government. The long period of military occupation of the national political space provides an explanation for this ugly trend. This trend has often time thrown spanner into the wheel of democracy and its consolidation, thereby, taking the country several steps backwards in her journey towards effective governance and democratic consolidation. The paper while relied on secondary data collection methods; it adopts the theory of checks and balances as framework of analysis .The paper seeks to examine conflicts that involve the executive and judicial arms of government in the Nigeria's Fourth Republic democratic experiment. The study provides an in-depth analysis into the causes of such conflicts and its effects on democratic consolidation of the Nigerian nascent and fledgling democracy. It however goes further to offer solutions to stem such ugly trend.
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    Murdering democracy and thwarting people's will through intra-party conflicts in Nigeria: Lessons from Zamfara APC crises (2018-2020)
    (Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Achievers University, Owo, 2022-10-21) Olorunsuwa E.O.; Oyekunle, O.O.; Odekunle, K.A.; Kakol U.K.
    One of the cardinal principles of democracy is 'majority rule ' which con ers of governance on the majority of the people through an elected government on the platform of political parties. Since the return to democracy in 1999, the Peoples. Democratic Party (PDP) has never controlled the government structures in Zamfara State except when Shinkafi Mahmuda decamped to the party. The state is currently in the hand of PDP-a party that Zamfara people never gave their mandate. The papers traced and concluded that the depravation of Zamfara people of being governed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) the party they voted during the 2019 general election was due to the protracted crises within APC in the state. It relied on secondary data sources in arriving at these findings. The paper however concluded that intra-party conflict is harmful to the democratic development of Nigerian state. It recommended the adherence of party leaders and members to party rules as well as the strengthening of the country's institutional and political structures as a possible escape for future occurrences.