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	Single or Multi-Party System?
		They thus concluded that only the single party system in which all the various tendencies in their societies are forced to compete within a single defined arena, could guarantee national integration, avoid the fissiparous tendencies inherent in opposition politics and harness most effectively the energies of their peoples for the purpose of nation building.
		At the initial stages, reconstituting the democratic structures involved the use of appointive and co-optive methods that guaranteed that a significant element of the opposition was brought on board.
		Thus, for the majority of the people the test of a functioning democratic system is not in the mere ability to exercise the franchise once every four, five or even seven years, but in how the operation of government affect their daily lives.
	www.afbis.com /analysis/party.htm (2124 words)

	Nigeria (09/06)
		The Yoruba people are predominant in the southwest.
		Nigeria was granted full independence in October 1960, as a federation of three regions (northern, western, and eastern) under a constitution that provided for a parliamentary form of government.
		From the outset, Nigeria's ethnic, regional, and religious tensions were magnified by the significant disparities in economic and educational development between the south and the north.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2836.htm (7377 words)

	People's Democratic Party (Nigeria) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The People's Democratic Party is a centrist political party in Nigeria.
		At the last legislative elections, held on 12 April 2003, the party won 54.5% of the popular vote and 223 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives, and 76 out of 109 seats in the Senate.
		Its candidate at the presidential elections on 19 April 2003, Olusegun Obasanjo, was re-elected with 61.9% of the vote, though with alleged widespread rigging and manipulation of the voting process.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/People's_Democratic_Party_(Nigeria) (375 words)

	Nigeriaworld -- PDP: Peoples' Deprivation Party of Nigeria unlimited!
		While the party claims to be led by messiahs and saints, the people keep seeing their leaders as a gang of rogues and marauders that is hell-bent on pillaging and sucking the last pints of blood from the veins of our nation.
		Its original description as a democratic party lives only in name today, as it has been overlaid by dictatorship, which is the method and political philosophy of choice of the leader of the party, President Obasanjo.
		Nigeria has quite a large number of unaccounted individuals that are being protected by either a large contingent of the police or the military.
	nigeriaworld.com /columnist/ihenacho/072103.html (4805 words)

	Bankintroductions.com - NIGERIA
		Nigeria as a third world country is well known for its corruption and abuse of oil wealth as years of military rule have long been accused of skimming billions of US-dollars from foreign exchange reserves and leaving the nation with widespread poverty and an inadequate infrastructure.
		Nigeria’s infrastructure is in immediate need to be upgraded as it is in poor condition including the telecommunications networks, electirical grids and social aspects (schools, hospitals, etc.).
		Nigeria is currently restructuring much of its debt although relations with the IMF and World Bank are strained.
	www.bankintroductions.com /nigeria.html (1966 words)

	Nigeria: Nigeria's north undermined by matters of faith - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The scene reflects the blend of religion and politics that is destabilising northern Nigeria and attracting international concern for the fate of individuals such as Amina Lawal, a young woman sentenced in March to death by stoning for engaging in sexual relations outside marriage.
		People in the north say the state governments give the misleading impression that they have only just introduced sharia, which comprises a set of moral and practical guidelines to be followed by all Muslims.
		People living in the north point to hypocrisy among politicians who preach sharia but spend their weekends in hotels and state government guest houses drinking and sleeping with women.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/adv.asp?blurb=74 (721 words)

	UNITED STATES OF NIGERIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Her case is peculiar because it is the only state in the country where the Peoples Democratic Party never left other party the minutest opportunity of rigging while the Donald Duke together with his party massively rigged.
		Democratic Republic of Congo has changed in the past; Zimbabwe was Rhodesia, Ghana was Gold Coast, etc. Nigeria can equally change her name.
		Because Nigeria is standing at the middle, she will continue to suffer a lot of predicaments as a country.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /uarticles/united_states_of_nigeria.htm (1052 words)

	Nigeria News.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nigeria offers a wide variety of tourist attractions such as extended and roomy river and ocean beaches ideal for swimming and other water sports, unique wildlife, vast tracts of unspoiled nature ranging from tropical forest, magnificent waterfalls, some new rapidly growing cities and climatic conditions in some parts particularly conducive to holidaying.
		Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a reclusive Muslim state governor, Umaru Yar'Adua, to be its candidate to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo as president of Africa's most populous...
		Delegates of the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday voted for an amendment of the party's constitution to create a role for former president who is a member of the...
	www.nigeriannews.net (978 words)

	Politics of Nigeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Nigeria takes place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nigeria is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Nigeria is currently in better foreign relations due to her current state of democracy and with the help of the current president Obasanjo.
		Nigeria · Rwanda · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · Sudan · Swaziland · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Nigeria (778 words)

	CNN - Centrist party leads balloting in Nigeria - December 7, 1998
		ABUJA, Nigeria (CNN) -- The centrist Peoples Democratic Party made a strong showing in local elections over the weekend, leaving it in a position to dominate the country's planned transition to civilian rule in May.
		The party appears to have won control of about 60 percent of races in 774 local districts, based on results from 647 of those districts.
		The Commonwealth, which suspended Nigeria after Abacha ordered the execution of author Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other minority rights activists in 1995, said it was satisfied with the conduct of the vote and delighted at public enthusiasm.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9812/07/nigeria.elex.02/index.html (471 words)

	PDP Washington State, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		People's Democratic Party [PDP] is the Nigerian ruling party that wrestled power from the Federal Military Government of Nigeria under the able and distinguished leadership of His Excellency, President (retired General) Olusegun Obasanjo.
		As a result of these achievements, we: the people of Nigeria resident in the United States have resolved to inaugurate and incorporate the People's Democratic Party of Nigeria in the 50 states of the United States of America as chapters with a national secretariat to be based in a state yet undecided.
		Accordingly, and in keeping with the tenets of democracy and democratic principles, a professionally orchestrated free and fair democratic election was held on September 13, 2001 at "Comfort Inn Conference Hall," Federal Way, SeaTac area (near to Seattle), in the State of Washington.
	www.geocities.com /pdpwashington/history.htm (493 words)

	Global Trade Negotiations Home Page
		Though Nigeria has been a member of the WTO since its inception, some Nigerian government officials question the ability of its weak, oil-dependent economy to continue to participate in the organization's agenda for trade liberalization.
		Nigeria maintains OPEC membership, and it agreed to a regional gas project in early 2003 that will enable the piping of natural gas to five cities in Ghana, Togo and Benin.
		Nigeria is responsible for specific aspects of the NEPAD including economic governance, the banking sector and financial institutions, debt relief for Africa, ODA (Official Development Assistance), as well as corruption and money laundering on the continent.
	www.cid.harvard.edu /cidtrade/gov/nigeriagov.html (1205 words)

	Enter the workers' party in Nigeria? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rather, the conditional registration of the parties reflects the enormous crisis brewing within society, the weakness of the Obasanjo regime and the fear of the impending struggles of the Nigeria workers.
		In addition, Nigeria is an import dependent country; it also depends on imported refined fuel for the domestic economy, in spite of the fact that it is one of the biggest oil producers.
		However, had the regime refused to register the party, the party did not have a mass base to protest or resist, as the NCP is not a mass party.
	www.marxist.com /enter-workers-party-nigeria-2.htm (5623 words)

	NIGERIA
		The elections in Nigeria that have brought retired general and former head of state Olusegun Obasanjo to the presidency were conducted under a transition program established by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who became head of state on the death in June 1998 of Gen. Sani Abacha.
		Within the political parties contesting the elections there were serious problems with lack of internal democracy and respect for party constitutions.
		If the representatives of the delta region in local, state, and national democratic institutions are not in fact representative, then the chances of their responding to the grievances of the peoples living in their constituencies are substantially reduced.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/nigeria2/Ngria993-06.htm (1883 words)

	No. 1461: NIGERIAN POLITICS AND 2007
		The platform for public political discussion in Nigeria is being deliberately and consistently abused by the very intense concentration of efforts and energy on the Third Term Bid allegedly being promoted by Olusegun Obasanjo, but strictly more by the PDP governors and the political godfathers that dominate the Nigerian political terrain.
		Essentially, the same people who masterminded and promoted the Abacha project are still the same people trying to repeat their self-seeking folly at the expense of economic development in Nigeria.
		The central political issue in Nigeria today is the mobilisation of our extensive natural and national resources for the rapid development of the economy to raise the quality of life of 126 million Nigerians to a standard and quality comparable with what is acceptable for human beings living in the 21st century.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/1461.html (1700 words)

	CNN - Obasanjo's party dominates Nigeria vote - February 22, 1999
		In Nigeria's last presidential elections, in 1993, the victory of Moshood Abiola was annulled by the military.
		The Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute sent 10 teams of observers to nine states in Nigeria, and said their report was not comprehensive but gave an indication of worrying trends.
		The two other major parties, the Alliance for Democracy and the All Peoples Party, which are bound by an electoral pact, won a combined 38 seats in the Senate and 121 in the House.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9902/22/nigeria.elex.02/index.html (461 words)

	Nigerian Opposition Calls For Impeachment of President, His Deputy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nigeria's main opposition party is calling for the impeachment of the president and his deputy, bitter enemies who accuse each other of corruption.
		The opposition party says the allegations are very serious and the removal of the two leaders is the only way to restore credibility and respect to the presidency.
		Olabode George, an associate of the president and deputy national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, says the allegations of Abubakar's wrongdoing were well founded and borne out of the president's conviction that it would strengthen Nigeria's fledgling democracy.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-09-16-voa30.cfm (449 words)

	The survival of Nigeria
		The nation should begin to teach democratic values, which it lacks, to the citizens (especially to the youths since they are the leaders of tomorrow), teach them to obey the laws of the land and be sensitive to the feelings of others.
		The people must be educated on how to protect their rights and to respect the rights of others, before they could function well in a democracy.
		More importantly, the people should not allow the smart and terminally corrupt and insatiably greedy political elite to manipulate them with sugarcoated tribal/regional and religious sentiments, as these are the main sources of social unrest in the society.
	nigerdeltacongress.com /sarticles/survival_of_nigeria.htm (1766 words)

	Turning votes into an auction bazaar marred credibility of Nigeria's presidential election
		Already, the man widely believed to have benefited from the alleged rigging of the elections is retired army general and former ruler of Nigeria, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo of the Peoples Democratic Party.
		Fact is that many of the leaders of the APP and the leading, dominant Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, (especially the APP) were unrestrained zombies for the recent days of darkness military dictatorship, many of them barking shills, propagandizing footstools and shameless protagonists for the late and disgraced former dictator Sani Abacha to succeed himself.
		During the nomination, he was one of the power players and spoilers rather than a serious, realistic candidate in the PDP fight between former vice-President of Nigeria Alex Ekwueme and former military ruler retired Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo.
	www.exodusnews.com /worldnews/world015.htm (653 words)

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		Bafarawa: Nigeria Faces serious political crisisGovernor andnbsp;Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa of Sokoto state said Nigeria is facing a serious political crisis due to lack of cooperation and understanding among the 19 northern States governors.
		The democratic peoples party of Nigeria [ DPP] says education will be given priority if voted into power come 2007.Chairman of the verification team for the northwest zone of the party Alh.
		Tori Aliyu said the party is receiving decampees on daily basis and attributed it to the developmental project executed by the Bafarawa's administration.
	www.dppngr.org (1059 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Nigerian presidential deadline looms
		The two largest political parties in Nigeria are choosing presidential candidates for elections that will end 15 years of military rule.
		All three of Nigeria's parties must submit the names of their candidates on Monday for the 27 February vote to elect a successor to General Abdulsalami Abubakar, who has pledged to step down on 29 May.
		The Peoples' Democratic Party, Nigeria's largest political party, are meeting in Jos where the two main candidates are a former military leader, Olusegun Obasanjo, and a former civilian vice president Alex Akwueme.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/279388.stm (287 words)

	Democratic Party
		Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has chosen Umaru Yar'Adua, governor of the northern Katsina State, as its candidate for the April 2007 presidential election.
		A group of former members of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran have broken ranks with the PDKI and its leadership.
		Democrats @ College Democrats of America - The organization's primary focus is registering voters and electing Democrats.
	www.highclassblogs.com /Democratic-Party.html (812 words)

	Nigeria News
		Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a reclusive Muslim state governor, Umaru Yar'Adua, to be its candidate to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo as president of Africa's most populous nation in elections next year.
		Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party has chosen Umaru Yar'Adua, governor of the northern Katsina State, as its candidate for the April 2007 presidential election.
		Lawmakers in Nigeria are debating a bill that would ban same-sex marriage and any form of association among gays, even sharing a meal at a restaurant.
	www.topix.net /world/nigeria (950 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute
		Nigeria's 2003 elections were the first conducted under a civilian administration in two decades.
		The Institute is working with key legislators and staff to establish a National Assembly Budget and Research Office (NABRO), which would professionalize the NA's consideration of Nigeria's federal budget and strengthen the capacity of the legislative branch in its engagement with the executive branch on budget-related and public expenditure management issues.
		The delegation assessed the prevailing political environment in Nigeria and preparations for the 2007 national elections, identified areas in which improvements were needed to guarantee the integrity of those elections, and demonstrated the support of the international community for a democratic electoral process in Nigeria.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/cewa/nigeria/nigeria.asp (1052 words)

	index.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that emerged as
		Chibuike Amechi emerged as a consensus candidate of the party.
		Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential aspirant of the All Nigeria
	www.dppnigeria.com (2616 words)

	Nigeria Program Activities
		ABUJA -- Nigeria's ruling Peoples' Democratic party (PDP) was close to victory last night in parliamentary elections, amid concerns about the potential for election violence and ballot rigging in Saturday's presidential poll.
		President Olusegun Obasanjo's PDP, which dominated the last parliament, lost seats in the north to the main opposition All Nigeria People's party (ANPP) but made gains in the south-west at the expense of the Alliance for Democracy, its main rival in the region.
		The National Democratic Institute said the security authorities and the Independent National Election Commission, the electoral regulator, needed urgently to address political intimidation and violations of ballot secrecy.
	www.iri.org /africa/nigeria/2003-04-15-NigeriaNews.asp (395 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Nigeria party picks its candidate
		Since it was hastily formed some eight years ago, the PDP has had to cope with internal feuds that led to the exit of almost all its founding members.
		Earlier this week, the two main opposition parties in Nigeria, the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) and the Action Congress (AC), agreed to form an alliance.
		Presidential candidates for some 50 registered political parties are being announced in the next week.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/6183845.stm (348 words)

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