The impact of linguistic differences, religion and false information on the 2015 election results in Nigeria

Abstract

his work studies the extent to which people cling to bias, sentiments,
personal relationship, and false information, letting go of logic and
reasoning during elections, and how these affect their choice and
mandate during the elections in a democratic society leading to the
ascension of incapacitated individuals into political offices, whereas in a
democratic society people should be evaluated or judged by who they
are and what they are capable of accomplishing not by where they come
from and other societal limitations. The data for the study were the 2015
election results collected from the Independent National Electoral
Commission office, as a medium of assessing how language diversity,
sectional differences and false information affected the presidential
election. The results of the study proved that the Southerner who
contested won in all the southern states in addition to three Northern
states while the northerner won in all but three Northern States and none
from the Southern States.