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Power Rotation, Ethnic Politics and the Challenges of Democratization in Contemporary Nigeria

This article examines contemporary arguments and counter-arguments about zoning and power rotation, and the overall implications of these principles for the consolidation of democracy in Nigeria. Because geopolitical zone structures roughly approximate to ethnonational groups, they play a central aggregating role in Nigeria's body politic. However, arguments about zoning and power rotation tend to undermine the geopolitical system and bolster the nation's North/South division. The death of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in 2010 opened a "Pandora's box" of intrigue within Nigeria's political eli…

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Landmark University Repository (Landmark University)
Date	2014-04-01
Type	article
Details	openalex title_and_abstract.search:nigeria,authorships.countries:!NG,primary topic.subfield.id:3320
Found at	https://doi.org/10.14989/187750
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Power Rotation, Ethnic Politics and the Challenges of Democratization in Contemporary Nigeria. OpenAlex research, 2014. Vero Archive, record openalex:W1485022731.