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The chapter reflects on party politics as played out in the 2015 elections. It discusses the national and regional significance of the elections and underscores a number of themes in the nature of politics that gave rise to the observable outcomes. It also identifies and explains seven salient factors that shaped the political processes and outcomes. These include opposition merger, nature of party primaries and candidate selection, electioneering campaigns, active citizenship, pre-election tensions and the setting up of the National Peace Committee (NPC), opposition victory and alternation of power and finally, post-election peace and stability. Sustaining the atmosphere of peace and stability remains a fundamental challenge that all democratic players, locally and internationally, must be willing to promote.
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Hamalai, L., Egwu, S., Omotola, J.S. (2017). Party Politics in the 2015 Nigerian Elections. In: Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54096-2_9
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