Securing elections: Farmer-herder conflict and the 2019 general elections in Nigeria.
| dc.contributor.author | ADEBIYI, Oluwashina Moruf | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-02T11:24:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-02T11:24:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Since the beginning of the Fourth Republic, Nigeria has witnessed national security-threatening conflicts of which the farmer-herder conflict appears to be a persistent one. The conflict in the present political dispensation has assumed Unprecedented dimensions. Several lives have been lost, properties worth billions Of naira have been destroyed and many people have been displaced due to the incessant violent clashes between farmers and herders. There was therefore, a great concern about the dangers that the farmer-herder conflict portended for the 2 019 general elections. Through the adoption of the qualitative research design in which data were largely derived from secondary sources and using content analysis to analyse same, this paper attempted a prognosis of a peaceful 2019 general elections against the backdrop of rising spate of insecurity largely orchestrated by the farmer-herder conflict. It was revealed that while the period leading to the general elections was characterised by incessant killings. Election day and postelection periods were relatively peaceful, signifying that the farmer-herder conflict did not relatively impact on the 2019 general elections. The conflict however, created security challenges in North-Central geo-political zone. It was therefore, recommended among others that there is the need to devise approaches that will improve farmer-herder relationship. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | 8. Adebiyi, O.M. (2019). Securing elections: Farmer-herder conflict and the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. Federal University Lafia Journal of Contemporary Political Studies, 2(1):43-65. Published by the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University Lafia, Nassarawa State, Nigeria. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2672-5177 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/15851 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Department of Political Science, Federal University Lafia | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Volume 2; Number 1 | |
| dc.subject | Elections | |
| dc.subject | democracy | |
| dc.subject | herders | |
| dc.subject | farmers | |
| dc.subject | insecurity | |
| dc.title | Securing elections: Farmer-herder conflict and the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. | |
| dc.type | Article |