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An Overview of 2015 General Elections in Nigeria

The attention of the global community will be on Nigeria because it is another electioneering period.Right from the pre-independence era, elections in Nigeria have been characterized by political violence; gross electoral malpractices; government's interference; money politics and the use of ethno-religious identities in shaping the voting patterns of the electorates.Nigeria with a population of over 170 million is fragmented into diverse ethnic groups.The country was conceived by the British Colonialists and till date Nigerians are yet to see themselves as one entity.The results of the 1965 G…