ELECTORAL PROCESS AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERIA. A CASE STUDY OF THE 2007 GENERAL ELECTION UNDER OLUSEGUN OBASANJO’S ADMINISTRATION
The linkage between the elections and democracy is clear, far, no other method for selecting the leadership of a democratically ruled society has been proved or crown to be superior but it remain a fact that there is no political system that is conflict free. Even the advanced democracies political participation, citizenship rights, the role of global governance and the media. Western democracy and the American also have fundamental flaws. (Onu and Momoh, 2003: 11) In Nigeria, after a lon...