THE ROLE OF SECURITY IN CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AND SUSTAINANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA
Democracy is beneficial to people provided the democratic rule is adopted while democracy cannot be achieved unless there are periodic elections. Elections, though, considered as pre-requite for good governance, however, mere elections without ensuring credibility is also tantamount to despotism. An...
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| description | Democracy is beneficial to people provided the democratic rule is adopted while democracy cannot be achieved unless there are periodic elections. Elections, though, considered as pre-requite for good governance, however, mere elections without ensuring credibility is also tantamount to despotism. An election cannot be judged as credible, free and fair unless the following agents of democracy - security, media and civil society organizations – perform their constitutional roles. This paper focuses on the evaluation and dynamics of role of security, media and civil society organization in Nigerian democracy. It explores the pertinent roles of the security, media and civil society organizations to the conduct of credible elections which in turn may beget true democracy. The existing literatures have drawn the linkage between security democracy and elections. However, this paper does not only argues that security men, press men and civil society organizations have not done well in the conduct of elections in Nigeria but also highlights some other core issues that have dominated the discourse and explores the challenges on democratization process in Nigeria. Finally, a recommendation is made that all stakeholders should be honest and moral in discharging their duties. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3cdf9f1180734523897b2d0e6f2f1c602022-12-21T19:58:40ZengTechnopressJournal of Public Administration, Finance and Law2285-22042285-34992018-06-01713134142THE ROLE OF SECURITY IN CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AND SUSTAINANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIAOsezua Ehiyamen MEDIAYANOSE0Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin, Ilorin NigeriaDemocracy is beneficial to people provided the democratic rule is adopted while democracy cannot be achieved unless there are periodic elections. Elections, though, considered as pre-requite for good governance, however, mere elections without ensuring credibility is also tantamount to despotism. An election cannot be judged as credible, free and fair unless the following agents of democracy - security, media and civil society organizations – perform their constitutional roles. This paper focuses on the evaluation and dynamics of role of security, media and civil society organization in Nigerian democracy. It explores the pertinent roles of the security, media and civil society organizations to the conduct of credible elections which in turn may beget true democracy. The existing literatures have drawn the linkage between security democracy and elections. However, this paper does not only argues that security men, press men and civil society organizations have not done well in the conduct of elections in Nigeria but also highlights some other core issues that have dominated the discourse and explores the challenges on democratization process in Nigeria. Finally, a recommendation is made that all stakeholders should be honest and moral in discharging their duties.http://www.jopafl.com/uploads/issue13/THE_ROLE_OF_SECURITY_IN_CREDIBLE_ELECTIONS_AND_SUSTAINANCE_OF_DEMOCRACY_IN_NIGERIA.pdfelectiondemocracynigeriasecuritymediacivil society organization |
| spellingShingle | Osezua Ehiyamen MEDIAYANOSE THE ROLE OF SECURITY IN CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AND SUSTAINANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law election democracy nigeria security media civil society organization |
| title | THE ROLE OF SECURITY IN CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AND SUSTAINANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA |
| title_full | THE ROLE OF SECURITY IN CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AND SUSTAINANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA |
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| title_full_unstemmed | THE ROLE OF SECURITY IN CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AND SUSTAINANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA |
| title_short | THE ROLE OF SECURITY IN CREDIBLE ELECTIONS AND SUSTAINANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA |
| title_sort | role of security in credible elections and sustainance of democracy in nigeria |
| topic | election democracy nigeria security media civil society organization |
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