TY  - JOUR
T1  - Electoral Manipulations and Voters Apathy in Nigeria
AU - Abayomi John, Aluko 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
SP  - 226
EP  - 233
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2020.226.233
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2020.226.233
KW  - Electioneering
KW  -political development
KW  -voters
KW  -apathy
KW  -political party
KW  -Republics
KW  -Nigeria
AB  - This study reveals the electioneering process in
Nigeria political development is not devoid of electoral
manipulations. It is instituted by result desperadoes who
defiled the act of performing fundamental and civic
responsibility of voters, patriotically intertwined with
right to speak and assessing the incumbency performance
or an attempt to test-run other aspiring potential
contenders, albeit, returning or sacking officers from
offices. On integration, electoral manipulations are no
doubt, an aberration, but a culture adopted as the last
option of suppressing the strength of the opposition,
manipulation of EMB even within the internal party
polity. It is of course not in single pipeline of current
dispensations (1999-2019) rather traceable to political
developments from the early 1950s to late 1970s and
1980s-1990s. Descriptively, electoral manipulations
stance in electoral process commenced and brewed
behaviorally due to untold ethnic founding of political
parties hinged on socio-cultural groups and affiliations in
the instance of AG, NPC, NCNC, second, third and fourth
republic are not exempted outside the parlance from
preceding political atmosphere which marred the
successes of pre and post-independence preponderance of
electoral manipulations in Nigeria, consequently, the
politics of wet e. Hence, electoral manipulations culture
thus situated in the democratic governance. Objectively,
this effort aims to identify and analysed the causes of
apathy in electoral process based on secondary data and
proffering recommendations to reducing apathy in the
Nigeria electioneering process.
ER  -