Assessment of voters’ behaviour on 2019 general elections in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper is on the assessment of voters’ behaviour on 2019 general elections in Nigeria: the challenges of voter's behaviour in Nigeria are numerous, but ethnicity and personality of contestant is very much a challenge across Nigerian states when it comes to voter’s behaviours. The methodology used in arriving at data used in this paper was purely secondary method of data collection, because the paper "itself” is descriptive research. The challenges affecting voter's behaviour in Nigeria with reference to Nigeria ranges from ethnicity, religion, level of illiteracy, personality traits and institutional challenges. The paper adopted the Elite theory of Mosca and Pareto for it theoretical frame work and posited by way of recommendation(s) that the government must improve the quality of education of its people to reduce the manipulation of their voter’s behaviour during election especially general elections.