HISTORICAL DIALECTICS OF 2015 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: IMPLICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The Presidential General election 2015 was one of the pregnant events in the history of Nigerian Democracy. The opposition party All Progressive Congress (APC) for once was set for delivery or miscarriage of Nigerian Democracy. This tensed situation produced fertile grounds for so many unanswered questions like, creation of additional polling units not known to other political parties, the faith of 12.4 million Nigerians who did not get their PVC before election, the huge amount of 125 billion naira largest sum ever spent on election in Africa, the failure of card readers, the question of underage voting in the North, and the demographic figure of disbursement of PVC in the North. By way of an empirical narrative, predicated on Marxist political economy approach, the paper attempts to proffer a way forward in the coming election in Nigeria. It recommends a new organic composition of the structure of INEC in future election in Nigeria.