Abstract

The activeness of any nation citizenry determines how effective and the types of government such a nation will have. In the case of Nigeria, Nigerian citizens have been engulfed by stark illiteracy and chronic ignorance. Citizens have failed in their responsibility of participating actively in the polity of their nation. Citizens have been blindfolded that they cannot even differentiate between good governance and bad governance, as they still blindly pledge their support to bad leadership and to the decayed political parties of Nigeria, e.g. APC and PDP. Citizens found mostly in this blindness are the South western citizens despite their level of education. This paper examined the inability of Nigerian citizens to read within the lines and understand the dangers inherent in the politics of these two political parties of APC and PDP, and the fact that both parties have no better ideology and plans to better the lives of Nigerians. The paper examines the difference between People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and All progressive Congress (APC) ideology in terms of corruption in Nigeria. The paper finally examines the effect of non-democratic citizenry in Nigeria. This paper adopts the hybrids method, as interview methods of data collection are adopted while other data are gotten from the readymade works of scholars and from the common sense views of the writer. This paper finally proffers workable recommendations to the problems of bad leadership in Nigeria.

Highlights

  • Active democratic citizenry most of the time determine the political status of their country’s and the realization of good governance in their countries

  • This paper examined the inability of Nigerian citizens to read within the lines and understand the dangers inherent in the politics of these two political parties of All progressive Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and the fact that both parties have no better ideology and plans to better the lives of Nigerians

  • Nigerian citizens have mostly demonstrated their lack of political education as they have for years been pledging their supports to the defective political parties of APC and the PDPs that their government has failed the country on many occasions as self-centeredness, highhandedness, corruption, and bad governance have been the order of the day while governmental policies are determined based on religious and ethnic consideration

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Oladimeji Sogo Osewa

Nigerian Defence Academy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and Defence Studies, Nigeria. Type of the Paper: Case Study Research. Active Democratic Citizenry: A Determinant of Good Governance - A Case Study of Nigerian State. International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences (IJMTS), 5(1), 285-297. International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences (IJMTS) A Refereed International Journal of Srinivas University, India. The SP disclaims of any harm or loss caused due to the published content to any party

Research Assumptions
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