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Nigeria’s 2007 General Elections and Succession Crisis: Implications for the Nascent Democracy

Undoubtedly, the events of the 2007 general elections coupled with the verdict of both local and international observers clearly demonstrated that the entire electoral process was controversial, thereby making the election flawed.The concomitant effect is a crisis of political succession, which has always been the bane of Nigeria's march to democracy.Thus, the thrust of this paper is an in depth analysis of the elections vis-à-vis political succession.After an introductory overview the paper proceeds to a conceptualisation of political succession, which forms its theoretical framework.Part thr…