Post Electoral Violence And The Threat To National Peace And Security In Nigeria

CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background of the Study People have devise and lived under various forms of government in different countries of the world of which democracy has been adjudge to be the best. This explains the democratic appeal to every human organisation from antiquity. Schumpeter (1952:269), defines democracy as that institutional arrangement for arriving at a political decision in which individual acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggles for the people’s votes. This definition suggest the importance of competitive elections in a democracy. Bone…