Nigerian military and the crisis of democratic transition

a study in the monopoly of power

by Abubakar Momoh

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Published 1999 by Civil Liberties Organisation in Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos .
Written in English

Places:

• Nigeria,
• Nigeria.
Subjects:

• Civil-military relations -- Nigeria.,
• Military government -- Nigeria.,
• Democracy -- Nigeria.,
• Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 1960-

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-302).

Statement	by Abubakar Momoh and Said Adejumobi.
Contributions	Adejumobi, Said., Civil Liberties Organisation (Nigeria)
Classifications
LC Classifications	JQ3086.C58 M66 1999
The Physical Object
Pagination	xvi, 304 p. ;
Number of Pages	304
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL6826738M
ISBN 10	9783218883
LC Control Number	00311125

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  Nigerian Military Reaffirms Commitment To The Nation's Democratic Processes In this instance, all military personnel have been reminded and warned to .   To understand this book, the reader must return to the title and its emphasis on Nigeria's political transition and the period – Although the essays were written between and , in nearly every possible instance Samuel returns to the momentous event of the presidential election of 12 June , its annulment and aftermath, and Author: Reuben Abati.

There have been a large number of successful and failed military coups in Nigeria since the country's independence from the British Empire in A military coup is the violent or non-violent overthrow of an existing political regime by the military. Between and the army held power in Nigeria without interruption apart from a short-lived return to democracy between False CHAPTER2: 6- Prior to its wave of military take over in 's and 's Africa had enjoyed the Third World strongest democratic 7-One of the prerquisites for democrtizaton of a society is a substatial size of lowerclass and 8-Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa, has both extensive petroleum reserves. Military dictatorship is nearer to the civilian dictatorship which the pre-colonial institutions of Obaship, Obiship, and Emirship represented than the Parliamentary democratic system introduced by the British colonial masters which was far too distance from the institutions of Obaship, Obiship and the Emirship (Yesufu, ). Both the.

This edited volume, composed of 22 chapters discusses the form, trajectory and substance of democratic governance in post-military Nigeria between and It is a compilation of well researched essays and narratives on Nigerian government and politics. This soon created a new ethnic crisis. The next five years saw violent protests and mass migrations as ethnic groups again retreated to their traditional homelands. The sudden death of Nigeria's last military dictator, General Suni Abacha, on 8 June opened the door for a transition back to civilian rule. ACCORDING to Idris Mabadeje, the military coup d’état of Janu marked the advent of the Nigerian military class into the political leadership of the Nigerian nation. The first military coup in West Africa took place in Togo in January and like a wild fire, the coup syndrome soon spread to other countries in the sub-region.