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POLITICAL THUGGERY, VIOLENCE AND WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT Nigeria’s political system is characterized by thuggery, violence, harassment and marginalization of women in electoral process because, the system is a male dominated system that constitutes major barrier to women political aspiration in contesting for elective positions at all levels of governments. The available records proved that since Nigerian returned to democratic rule in 1999, the number and percentage of women who contested for political offices at all levels of governments were not commensurate with total population of women in Nigeria and this could be described as the whi…