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INTRA PARTY DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL SECURITY: A FOCUS ON ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) IN THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN EBONYI STATE
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Intra party democracy has generated debate among scholars given the trending in electoral democracy in Nigeria. Primary and general elections in Nigeria have presented issues and contradictions since 1959 general elections. Political security is at the core of human security as enunciated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1994. The study is set to examine whether political security has been protected in the practice of intra party democracy in the country. Theoretically, the study will make use of cognitive dissonance theory. The study adopted the documentary method of data collection. The results indicate that political security has suffered severely under intra party democracy in Nigeria. Thus, the study recommends that appropriate measures taken by the relevant institutions to punish human rights violators
