Introduction: Power and Politics in Presidential Systems
Power is central to politics. In addition, the political elites would do anything to control the power of the state. This chapter interrogates the primacy of power in the governing systems characterized by the principle of separated but shared powers amon
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Impeachment in the Nigerian Presidential System
Omololu Fagbadebo
Impeachment in the Nigerian Presidential System Challenges, Successes and the Way Forward
Omololu Fagbadebo Department of Public Management and Economics Durban University of Technology Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Preface
This book explored the ways in which the legislature in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic exercised the power of impeachment. The central theme of the book is the exercise of the legislative power of impeachment to promote good governance in Nigeria. It began with the discussion of the major features of the presidential system and the exercise of the power of the legislature. It focused on the purpose of impeachment as a measure to ensure accountability in a governing system that promotes shared powers of the government. The analysis in the book is anchored on three major theories and their components: structural functionalist theory, legislative role theory, and the elite theory. This was necessary to situate the crisis of governance arising from the failure to the legislature within the larger context of the Nigerian political system. The book adopted the interpretative tradition of knowledge, which is concerned with the understanding of the people, their actions and motivations. The concern of
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