Electoral Violence and Democratic Sustenance in Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Insights from the 2011 Post-election Violence in Northern Nigeria
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2013
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Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training Mambayya House, Bayero University, Kano
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This article examines electoral violence and its implications on Nigeria's efforts at democratic sustenance, using the incidences of pre- and post-election violence that emanated from the conduct of the 2011 general elections as a point of departure. The article engages in the discussion of three important factors that underpin electoral violence and the implications that the deployment of violence in the electoral process constitutes for the democratic process in Nigeria.' The article posits that the reification of violence as an instrument for acquiring and/or retaining political power negatively hinders efforts at enhancing democratic governance in Nigeria violence that emanated from the conduct of the 2011 general elections as a point of departure. The article engages in the discussion of three important factors that underpin electoral violence and the implications that the deployment of violence in the electoral process constitutes for the democratic process in Nigeria.' The article posits that the reification of violence as an instrument for acquiring and/or retaining political power negatively hinders efforts at enhancing democratic governance in Nigeria
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pre- and post-election, 2011 general elections, democratic governance, violence