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POLITICAL PARTIES AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA
Abstract
Nigeria is a plural society with multi-ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic diversities. Since the amalgamation of the different groups that make up the entity now known as Nigeria, the country has remained in dire need of common national identity. Efforts have been made to integrate the country through constitutional means and the adoption of various policies, but these have not really produced the desired effect on the unity of the country. Many national policies and decisions have been ethnically influenced and interpreted thereby hindering successful integration of the country. It is against this background that this paper takes a look at political parties and national integration in Nigeria. The finding of the paper shows that political parties have serious role to play in forging national integration but that over the years, political parties have not lived up to expectation in this regard and recommended that effort should be made to strengthen political parties as instrument of national integration through the constitution.
