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Omololu Fagbadebo () and Mojeed Olujinmi A. Alabi
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Omololu Fagbadebo: Durban University of Technology, Riverside Campus
Mojeed Olujinmi A. Alabi: College of Law, Osun State University, Ifetedo Campus

A chapter in The Legislature in Nigeria’s Presidential Democracy of the Fourth Republic, 2023, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The series of political instability generated by Nigeria’s First Republic parliamentary system gave rise to the adoption of a presidential system in the Second Republic in 1979. Nevertheless, the military truncated this process in December 1983. The fledgling Third Republic, concocted by the military, suffered the same fate in November 1993, when another military dictator swept away the Interim National Government (ING). In all these past democratic failures, the legislative institution suffered setbacks. While the executive and the judiciary remained operational, the legislature was in limbo (Fagbadebo 2020). In other words, the legislative institution in the Nigerian political system has remained the victim of a democratic recession. The birth of the Fourth Republic on May 29, 1999, brought to the fore the emergence of the legislature as yet another experiment in a presidential democracy. Its structure and organization in the system are an indication of its primary role in the life of the government. In the constitutional arrangement, its position takes precedence before the other two branches of government.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24695-1_1

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