ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA: THE CASE OF ANAMBRA STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS (2003 AND 2007)

📄 Project Abstract

Generally speaking, Election is part of Electoral process. While on the other hand, electoral process are institutionalized means of transplanting the popular wills of individuals into a common choice of a candidate among many candidates who stand for an elective position to represent a particular group of people. The word election is as old as mankind itself. Right from the Greek and Roman time, electrons were conducted in one form or the other. Though elections were used among Greece and Romans, the modern techniques of elections or electoral process have their trace in modern Europe following the selections or nominations of Bishops and Popes of the Roman Catholic Church in the middle Ages. While on the other hand, secular elections were predated to twentieth (20th) century when members of the English, House of Common first began to be returned by their peers. However, the popular, right to vote for parliamentary representatives is a product of the American and the French Revolution...