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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF POVERTY ON ELECTION, RULE OF LAW AND CRIMINALITY IN NIGERIA

In any decent society the world over, there should be a system that allows for descent existence. In such a system, there must exist a government that is responsive and accountable to the people. Democracy seems to provide the type of society envisaged by this demand of modernity. For any system to be described as being democratic, there must be a mechanism for the operation of rule of law and the existence of free and fair elections. But poverty, which has now assumed the status of a global menace eating deep into the fabric of third world countries stand tall above these good variables, Elec…