Party Ideology and Governorship Performance in Nigeria: A study of Kwara State 2003-2018
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2020-10
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The International Seminar on Regional Politics, Administration and Development 2020 (INSORPAD2020), STISIPOL Raja Haji, Riau, INDONESIA
Abstract
The contemporary debates on party ideology and good governance are deeply stirred by
the noteworthy of political processes that have taken position in Africa. Political ideology
is a significant medium of a political party. Political Parties does not act in a vacuum but
it is mostly prejudiced by party member’s views. In countries like Nigeria, after years of
political sovereignty, the challenges of good governance has eroded Nigeria dividend of
democracy as a result of lack of party ideology been portray by her political parties. The
paper focuses on necessities to improve party ideology in other to fabricate good
governance. Ex-post facto research design was used for this study. Stratified random
sampling was used to divide Kwara into three senatorial district which include; Kwara
Central (KC), Kwara South (KS), and Kwara North (KN). The study concluded and
recommended that party Political parties must evolve political ideologies and their
activities must be guided by the ideologies they so represent. Party ideology should be
established and be a guiding rule of the conduct for all political party members across the
states in Nigeria.