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Item FROM THE RULING TO THE OPPOSTION PARTY: NIGERIA’S PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE(American Journal of Innovative Research and Applied Sciences, 2016-04-16) Adefisoye, Taiwo Oladeji; Ayodele, BonnieBackground: Towards the terminal end of military dictatorship, and the epoch of Nigeria‟s Fourth Republic in 1999, the People‟s Democratic Party emerged as Nigeria‟s foremost political platform. Resultantly, the party, for sixteen uninterrupted years bestrode Nigeria‟s political landscape like a colossus; controlling the federal government, dominating the Senate, and House of Representatives, and having the highest number of governors than the other political parties put together at a point in time However the party lost out, and assumed the position of an opposition party after the 2015 general election. Objectives: To examine the rise and fall of Nigeria‟s foremost political party in its Fourth Republic - The People‟s Democratic Party. Methods: To achieve the objectives of this work, direct observation and secondary data were used. Also, interest articulation and interest aggregation; accountability and transparency; democratic consolidation; and conflict management, were used as variables to assess the performance of the PDP. Results: It was found out that the PDP fell short of its objectives, dismally performed, and failed to translate the aspirations of Nigerians into concreteobservable realities. Rather, for sixteen years of its hold onto power, the party was an academy of intrigue, lacking internal cordiality and cohesion. Consequently, massive corruption, insecurity, godfatherism among other socio-political ills, characterized Nigeria‟s political landscape for the period in view. All these (performance-failure of the party and the inevitability of change in particular) contributed to the defeat and the repositioning of the party from the ruling to the opposition position. Conclusion: The ability of the electorates to vote out any political party or individuals for lack of performance (as the case of the PDP in Nigeria) is one of the attractions of democracyItem THE ROLE OF POLITICAL EDUCATION IN PROMOTING ATTITUDINAL CHANGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA(American Journal of Innovative Research and Applied Sciences., 2016-04-24) Adefisoye, Taiwo Oladeji; Oluwaseun, BamideleBackground: It is widely acknowledged that democracy in Nigeria which should be essentially value-based and value-driven is presently a paradox of what it should be. This is because the structures and processes that underpin an effective democratic system in Nigeria are not driven and powered by a particular mindset or ideology. Objectives: To examine the cause(s) of the attitudinal deficiencies in the current practice of democracy in Nigeria, and to explore the extent to which political education could revitalize the identified attitudinal deficiencies for peaceful democratic system. Methods: To achieve the objectives of this work, direct observation and secondary data were adopted. Results: It was discovered that the present ideological deficiencies in Nigeria‘s democracy can be traced and attributed to the long period of military rule in the country. Besides the long years of military rule, the decline in societal values, poor and dysfunctional educational cum socialization processes, perceived compromise on the part of the different agents of political socialization, are other factors. Consequently, many political leaders in Nigeria are obsessed with power—a seductive drive that breeds political instability, ethnic violence, religious riots, moral corruption, economic distortions, megalomania, perversion and desecration of all that is good in the country. Conclusion: If Nigeria is to maintain a strong and responsible democracy and a prosperous and sustainable economic growth into the next century, it must be prepared to address and respond to political attitudinal deficiencies especially among young Nigerians at home and in the diaspora