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- Title
Politico-administrative Elite Gang-ups in Nigeria: An Introduction to 'Criminal Government Gang Theory of Governance'.
- Authors
Onah, Celestine Chijioke
- Abstract
There is a strong consensus among scholars that modern society is elite-driven. However, the pattern of migration from the non-political elite class to achieving elitism is chaotically fragmented, distorted, and lacks uniformity across societies. Therefore, this study is an attempt towards redefining and rethinking the patterns of the emergence and operation of the political elite class in a corrupt, underdeveloped, and poverty-stricken society. 'Criminal government gang theory of governance' was conceived and developed as a theory for the explanation, analysis, and prediction of how politicoadministrative leaders emerge and consolidate power and wealth in a corrupt Nigerian state through elite gang-ups. A qualitative survey was adopted to demonstrate the patterns of the emergence and operation of the structure of the criminal leadership network that was discovered to operate under four models used as a descriptive-analytical framework for the study. The findings revealed among other things that criminal government gang theory of governance is often the basis for recruitment into sensitive and juicy elective posts/appointments in Nigeria. This is because merit, character, competence, and capacity to deliver based on good track records are jettisoned, and thus, elections are mere gimmicks to ratify the already preselected members of the elite gangs through a criminalized backdoor process.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; ELITE (Social sciences); GANG members; POLITICAL elites; MODERN society; CRIMINALS
- Publication
African Renaissance (1744-2532), 2023, Vol 20, Issue 3, p249
- ISSN
1744-2532
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31920/2516-5305/2023/20n3a12