Nigeria is well-known for bloody conflicts and
institutional instability resulting from the intense
political competition among the countrys several
ethnic and regional groups. Many analysts see the
political history of post-colonial Nigeria as a
history of political instability. It seems justified
to characterize Nigeria as unstable considering the
seemingly clear evidence of political discontinuities
in the country. However, there is a deep structure of
political continuity that exists in the country, one
which challenges the discontinuity perspective. This
structural continuity manifests...