Executive-Judiciary Conflict in Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Implication for Democratic Consolidation
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2020-05-09
Authors
Olorunsuwa, E.O.
Bot, M.D.
Oko L.I.
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti
Abstract
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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Executive, Judiciary, democratic consolidation, Nigeria, Conflict
Citation
6.Olorunsuwa, E O.; Bot, M. D; Oko, L. I., Esq (2020). Executive-judiciary conflict in Nigeria’s fourth republic: Implication for democratic consolidation Studies in the Social Sciences,1(1),183-202, published by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University, Oye- Ekiti.