Title:
INSECURITY, ELECTION AND DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA

Authors:
Ekong, Joseph Paulinus and Emmanuel I. Wonah

Abstract:
The paper Examined Insecurity, Election and Democracy in Nigeria. The main argument of the paper is that insecurity is a precipitate of the prevalent negative conditions which threaten the sources of survival and reinforce inequality and poverty in Nigeria. The paper relied on secondary sources of data and adopted system theory as an analytical construct. One of the assumptions of system theory is that system, like the political system, has parts that are interrelated and interdependent and whatever, affects one part will invariably affect other parts of the system. One of the findings in this paper is that insecurity is a consequence of the asphyxiating living conditions which scuttle election and democracy in Nigeria. The paper recommended inter alia that the negative conditions should be curbed if not totally eliminated in other to give fillip to election and consolidate democracy in Nigeria.

Keywords:
Insecurity; Election; Democracy, Poverty, Faulty Distributive mechanism; Political Elites