Ethnicity, Religion and Voters Behaviour: The Experience of the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria

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Dr. Anthony Egobueze
Dr. Anthony Egobueze
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Callistus U. Ojirika
Callistus U. Ojirika
1 Rivers State House of Assembly, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

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The need for political stability and virile democratic culture in Nigeria is a great concern to all Nigerians and the international community. Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, several elections have been conducted, but the 2015 election is very significant to us because it exposed the unflinching role of ethnicity and religion in the voting behaviour of different segments of our society. We adopted Rational Choice Theory as our conceptual framework. This paper interrogates the influence of ethnicity and religion in the voting behaviour of the Nigerian electorates and recommends that voting behaviour should be based on party ideology and competence and reputation of the candidates and not ethnicity and religion.

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Dr. Anthony Egobueze. 2017. \u201cEthnicity, Religion and Voters Behaviour: The Experience of the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - F: Political Science GJHSS-F Volume 17 (GJHSS Volume 17 Issue F4): .

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The need for political stability and virile democratic culture in Nigeria is a great concern to all Nigerians and the international community. Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, several elections have been conducted, but the 2015 election is very significant to us because it exposed the unflinching role of ethnicity and religion in the voting behaviour of different segments of our society. We adopted Rational Choice Theory as our conceptual framework. This paper interrogates the influence of ethnicity and religion in the voting behaviour of the Nigerian electorates and recommends that voting behaviour should be based on party ideology and competence and reputation of the candidates and not ethnicity and religion.

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Dr. Anthony Egobueze Rivers State House of Assembly, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
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