Implication Of Political Violence To Nigerian Democracy

The research work titled the Impact of political violence to the stability of Nigeria democracy: An evaluation of 2007 general election examines political violence as the backdrop to democratic stability in Nigeria. The examination of the research finds it absolute that political violence as a roadblock to sustainable development in Nigerian democracy though that the work is not comprehensive because there has been existing researches on political violence and still ongoing; no single literature can explain it all. The research makes use of secondary data collection as its methodology due to the nature of the work and also adopted the elite theory and political economy approach as literature review and theoretical framework. The work further, deliberated and reviewed issue on class struggle, history of Nigeria’s political system; ethnicity on 2007 general election dimension of fraud and malpractices of various sort. The study therefore recommended that if we must have a stable democracy of our dream political violence must be devoid through digitalize concept of electionary rather than having physical or analogue system of election and conclude that Nigeria must accept the strategy of restructuring of its political system to have a stable democracy of our dream