The Academy chose to deliberate on the subject of elections because elections are a crucial means of choosing individuals who could legitimately be Society's representatives in the processes of managing the affairs of the nation. Democratic governance is an arrangement in which Society or the people own the government of the nation- state and in which the government acts on behalf of, and for the people. Democracy is people-centred. In Nigeria, as in many other parts of Africa, democracy has had a chequered history, and remains fragile. Part of the explanation has been that dominant political...
The Academy chose to deliberate on the subject of elections because elections are a crucial means of choosing individuals who could legitimately be So...