Abstract
Party politics is an essential aspect of democracy and elections everywhere. Nigerian presidential elections, like other elections around the world, are conducted within the framework of political parties, which provide the platform for recruitment, mobilisation, training and opportunity for representation. This challenges the concepts of internal democracy, competition and party primaries. In democratic states, election campaigns go through different phases, and one of the most difficult phases is party politics, the primaries. Strong and influential members of the party are likely to run against and compete with each other.
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Sule, B., Sambo, U. (2024). Party Politics. In: Presidential Elections in Nigeria's Fourth Republic. Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54919-9_6
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