Electoral Violence: The Bane of Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria.

Nigeria's experience with elections and democratic governance dates back to the colonial period. However, the democratic history of the country, since independence, has been riddled with an abysmal record of flawed elections, which have, in most cases, resulted in electoral violence. This, on some occasions, had foisted on Nigeria a military interregnum, which often acted as a stopgap to continuous democratic governance in the country, resulting in the First, Second, Third and Fourth Republic ex