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VOL. 8, ISSUE 3 (2023)
Nigeria's judiciary and the survival of democracy election results in 2003 and 2007 analysis
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Adaeze Nwamaka Obianuju Anumba, Obekwe Franklin Ezeoraj, Onodugo Ifeanyi Chris
Abstract
Many Nigerians, and indeed most foreign observers
of Nigerian affairs, believe that the restoration of democratic rule in
Africa's biggest country in May 1999 has resulted in little or no change in the
politics of this vast nation of 150 million people. Despite a flood of reform
efforts, the usual causes of governmental instability, corruption, electoral
malpractice, and political violence, have stayed intractable. However, as this
article will demonstrate, while the benefits of most institutional changes have
been difficult to quantify, significant progress has been made in a few other
important areas of national political life. One of them is the comparatively
effective judiciary reform, which has resulted in the institution gradually
emerging as a brave and impartial arbiter in intra-elite electoral disputes in
this chronically unstable federation. The large number of judicial
pronouncements that have overturned the outcomes of previous decisions
exemplifies the judiciary's transformation. Several flawed elections and
restored elected people to office, such as state Governors who were unjustly
removed from office. This article contends that these decisions, as well as the
new activist role of the judiciary that produced them, have helped to reinforce
the role of the judiciary as a vital instrument of political control and
democratic stabilisation, thereby extending the life of Nigeria's Fourth
Republic.
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Pages:60-66
How to cite this article:
Adaeze Nwamaka Obianuju Anumba, Obekwe Franklin Ezeoraj, Onodugo Ifeanyi Chris "Nigeria's judiciary and the survival of democracy election results in 2003 and 2007 analysis". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Education and Research, Vol 8, Issue 3, 2023, Pages 60-66
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