Abstract
This paper examines political corruption as the most critical problem of Governance besieging Nigeria, by looking at, assessing and comparing the various administrations, both the civil and the military. The state of poverty, peace and development in each government were used as assessment indicators. The focus is from 1979 when democracy was introduced in Nigeria to 2007 when President Obasanjo left the corridor of power. Whereas this paper uses few direct citations and evidence from other works/reports to support its case, it however argues that political corruption impacted negatively on the poverty, peace and development of the Nigerian state. The paper finds that the military regimes were more corrupt than the civilian regimes; however it concludes that on governance, Nigeria has not been fortunate with most of its leaders because they succumb to corruption at different levels and were unable to address the nation's problems.
Recommended Citation
Ikejiaku, Brian-Vincent
(2013)
"Political Corruption, Critical Governance Problem Facing the Nigerian State: Comparative Assessment of Various Regimes,"
Journal of African Policy Studies: Vol. 19:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/joaps/vol19/iss1/3