DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i10.018

Pages: 2025-2030

This paper presents a study of Nigeria political behavior and democratic consolidation. We have been able to highlight the basic behavioural orientation and attitudinal patterns of Nigerians especially the politicians. We observed that most Nigerians now have erroneous conception of democracy arising from their mangled experiences in the electoral process and in represent We Find, out that the high incidence of poverty and the desperate quest to survive have vitiated the moral base of most Nigerians’ re-tooled their mental apparatus and psychic motor to a very dangerous channel. These have impinged on the principles of most Nigerian as they resort to money – worshipping and mundane and innocuous unwholesome practices for survival. Therefore the ranging assault on the moral principles of an average Nigerian defined the structure of their personality. The idiosyncratic disposition they exhibit and their reactions to societal events. The study recommended that all Nigerian peoples party is to appreciate the shortcoming democracy as ideology and rekindling the hope of the average Nigerian in the political process.