Multi-Partism in the Third Universal Theory, the Deployment of Instruments of Alienation and People’s Participation in the Conduct of the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria.

Abstract

This study interrogated the popular participation in the conduct of representative democratic elections in Nigeria against the backdrop of the tenets of Muammar Gaddafi’s Third Universal Theory with keen emphasis on the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. Specifically, it identified how the multi-Partism in Nigeria’s representative democratic system were a critical factor in people’s participation in the conduct of the 2023 general elections. While literature abound, interrogating the place of the multi-party 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 secondary source of data collection, and employed the textual analytical technique to present and analyze collected data. While relying on critical and logical sense of evidences, the study established that the Multi-Partism in Nigeria’s Representative Democratic System, through the deployment of the instruments of alienation such as zoning, consensus candidacy among others, affected popular participation in the conduct of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.