Nigeria's democratisation efforts since attaining political independence from Britain have been
tumultuous and have spanned over three successive republics. A persistent bug decimating
Nigeria's democracy and repeatedly leading to military coups has been brazen electoral violence
perpetrated by the nation's political elite. Nigeria's 2019 Democratic Experience analyses and
explains what went wrong in Nigeria's experiment with democracy. Nigeria Africa's most
populous nation and the world's seventh most populous nation also contributes 70% of West
Africa's population. She is sub-Saharan Africa's largest oil producer and has remained Africa's
largest economy by GDP since 2014. The country has hundreds of diverse ethnic nationalities and
languages grouped into 36 states (or federating units) and an independent federal capital
territory. Though recognized as Africa's largest democracy her democratisation process since
the 1960s has remained tumultuous with massive electoral violence and political intolerance.
This repeatedly compelled the military to intervene in the nation's political history in the
years 1966 1983 and 1985. It is these developments that provided the motivation for this
volume to capture for posterity the conduct of the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria.
