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- Title
The legislatures, legislative oversight and crisis of governance in democratizing Nigeria: a prebendalist perspective.
- Authors
Osunkoya, Olusesan; Basiru, Adeniyi S.
- Abstract
This article, which is based on desk analysis, examines the legislative oversight roles of the legislatures in democratizing Nigeria against the backdrop of the seeming crisis of governance. It observes that the legislatures and their functionaries in Nigeria's Fourth Republic, especially at the national level, have performed abysmally in discharging their oversight roles, resulting in a crisis of governance. The essay concludes that as long as the Nigerian post-colonial rentier state and existing democratic institutions, the legislatures included, remain trapped in the prebendal orbit, the journey towards democratic accountability and by extension dividends of democracy, may continue to be a tortuous one.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; LEGISLATIVE oversight; LEGISLATIVE bodies; CRISES
- Publication
Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
2077-2815
- Publication type
Article