A Global Comparison of Parties Politics as the Basis for Strengthening Nigeria Political Parties

This paper explored contemporary comparative party politics of five (5) selected countries across the globe. Secondary data included media publications, scholarly research publications, government reports, government gazettes, textbook monographs, and journal articles were used in this article systematic analyses, The searched light was firstly beamed on three western state (United State of America, Great Britain and Germany) These; three countries were selected to represent western state base on their peculiarity, the research analyzed the political parties in United State as a Country that practices two parties and Federal constitution democracy. Great Britain with her two conservative political parties with her parliamentary Unitary system of Government were examined in comparison with German multi parties’ system in federal parliamentary system. While China party politics represented Asian tiger on how one political party operate in Authoritarian democracy. The choice to analysed Nigeria party politics was made to represent the countries in the south, being the largest country in Africa and most popular black race in the world. During the systematic analyses and in comparison of Nigeria political parties politics with other four (4) aforementioned countries parties politics, it was discovered that Nigeria parties politics lack compliance with political finance regulations, party institutionalization, and her internal politics is entrenched in godfatherism, tribalism, ethnicity, nepotism, sectionalism and even regionalism among others as barriers to achieving party stability. Therefore, this paper recommended that party politics should constitute functional institutions for political recruitment in a democracy, mandate should be given within limited time to investigate and prosecute political finance violators, politics should be made less attractive. This will discourage many politicians from engaging in illicit vices to attain power. The Nigeria parties’ structure has to return to parties internally elected executive, unofficial designation of the president and governors as leaders of political parties at the national and state levels must be reverse, hence, Nigeria democracy can make progress as a nation