Local Government As Agent Of Political Mass Mobilization In Nigeria

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Local government system has been defined differently by both scholars on this field and writers alike, but the one which will form our introductory definition is the one that look at local government as a grass root participatory democratic process which implies breaking down of a country into smaller units or localities for the purpose of administration in which inhabitants of the different units have an exerting influence in the affairs of government. Akpan, N. U. (1982). One of the justifications for the existence of local government was to…