JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Journal of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
ISSN: 1597-0396
DOI: 10.5987/UJ-JSMS
Email: jsms@universityjournals.org
NIGERIA'S DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN 2015: THE EXTERNAL INTEREST IN ITS ELECTORAL INTEGRITY
DOI: 10.5987/UJ-JSMS.16.034.2 | Article Number: 378BE12 | Vol.11 (2) - September 2016
Author: SANUBI Franklins Avwoghokigho
Keywords: Nigeria’s Elections, African Development
This paper uses the historical method of analysis to provide a discourse on the phenomenal role of Western players in raising the ladder of Nigeria's electoral integrity during the 2015 general elections. It sees this role as explainable by strategic economic and security variables that go beyond the mere rhetoric of altruism and the desire of the former to partner with Nigeria in its efforts to sustain its fledgling democracy and promote other aspects of local development. The paper however notes the electoral innovations in the 2015 elections as an advance in the nation-state's electoral integrity and suggests that beside delivering on its avowed promises of stamping out corruption from the political and social fabric of the nation-state, the new government in Nigeria should, among other things, strive to sustain and deepen these reforms in order to further extend its democratic profile in the international community.