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Political Parties, Elections and Electoral Uncertainty in Post-Transition Nigeria: A Study of the 2015 Presidential Election

Contemporary political parties across the democratic world now compete in extremely volatile electoral markets marked by declining voter loyalties. Indeed, this is increasingly becoming the conventional wisdom and political parties have devised varying strategies to cope with the challenge posed by voter dealignment. Extant literature on political parties and electoral change focuses almost exclusively 011 the experiences of advanced ‘western democracies with little or no attention given to such research in developing countries. Therefore, there is a need to undertake research that documents t…