POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF NIGER DELTA
Abstract
Violence, violence or threat of violence is a universal phenomenon, individuals and groups though out history have in one way form or another resulted to thuggery or potential use as tactic of political action. Thuggery have been employed or used by groups seeking power by groups holding power and groups using power. It was understood that clamoring for resources control was the reason why election were often reduced to a state of tuber lance in the Niger Delta region and Nigeria in general. Nigerian political history cannot be complete without the inclusion of its violence nature. Political violence in Nigeria is older than Nigeria independence, however thuggery and violence has contributed tremendously in Nigeria democratic dispensation.
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