CONTENTIOUS ISSUES IN NIGERIA'S DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE, 1999-2008

Abstract

This paper therefore seeks to describe and analyze those issues and developments in the current democratic dispensation that are contentions and therefore antithetical to the attainment of genuine democracy in Nigeria. To address this paper is divided into four sections. The first conceptualizes democracy, in the second section a brief historical exposition on the quest for democracy is highlight, followed an analysis of the programmes of the fourth Republic that tend to run foul of genuine democratic culture. Finally concluding remarks are made.