INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC) AND THE CONDUCT OF 2011 ELECTION IN NIGERIA: A PARADIGM SHIFT
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2013-01-30
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International Journal of Politics and Good Governance
Abstract
It is an established fact that Nigerian’s electoral process has always been marred with
irregularities; the 2011 election is a paradigm shift in the history of electioneering in the country.
Though some challenges were encountered in the conduct of the elections, INEC was given a
pass mark by both local and international observers and thus made the general election a
watershed. This makes it imperative in this paper to examine the conduct of the 2011 general
elections in Nigeria. The paper infers that if the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) can be built out of political influence and move away from status quo where a political
party dominates the constitution of drivers of INEC there is every tendency that there will be a
better conduct of election in the future. The paper taps various means of getting relevant
materials to put this study together for onward academic utilization and to reshape the conduct of
Nigeria’s forthcoming general elections.