Democratization, electoral processes and resources development: The Nigeria experience

Authors

  • Esekpa, Ofem Ibor Department of Public Administration, University of Calabar, Calabar. Author
  • Ekarika, Wisdom Amos Institute of Public Policy and Administration (IPPA), University of Calabar, Calabar. Author
  • Essein, Nkoyo Abednego Federal School of Statistic, Enugu Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60787/mjrdp.vol14no1.151

Keywords:

Election, Democracy and Human Resource Development

Abstract

This paper look at issues surrounding democratization election processes and and resources development. This concept was developed as a fragile democracies installed via multiparty elections resemble sand-castless, vulnerable to the collapse in the under tow of Electoral processes. The focus of this paper was to highlight the consolidating democratic elective principles, elections and democratization disposition and Nigerian’s Human Resource, Democratic Experience and its difficulties. The finding of this paper reveals that, both government and private bodies should have the burdened of developing human resources capital formation seriously, adequate learning environment should be employed in a democratization processes and finally full employment be taken as national electoral policy objective to enhanced aggregate electoral and political output.

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2026-06-05

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Democratization, electoral processes and resources development: The Nigeria experience. (2026). Multi-Disciplinary Journal of Research and Development Perspectives, 14(1), 217-225. https://doi.org/10.60787/mjrdp.vol14no1.151

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