Muammar Gaddafi’s Third Universal Theory and Popular Participation in the Conduct of the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria.

Abstract

The study focused on popular participation in the conduct of representative democratic elections, with emphasis on the 2023 general elections in Nigeria and how it interfaced with Muammar Gaddafi’s Third Universal Theory. The study examined how the activities of the parliamentary instrument of governance in the Third Universal Theory, affected popular participation in the conduct of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. While literature abound, interrogating the place of the legislative instrument of governance in representative democracy, efforts have not been made to examine the impacts of the activities of this institution on popular participation in the conduct of elections in Nigeria, hence this study. Adopting a critical qualitative research design, the paper relied on both primary and secondary sources of data collections, and employed the textual analytical technique to present and analyze collected data. The study, while relying on critical and logical sense of evidences, established that the Parliamentary Instrument of Governance through her legislative activities, such as the deliberate disenfranchisement of some certain sections of the population, affected popular participation in the conduct of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.