ISSN: 2278-4853 Vol 9, Issue 6, June, 2020 Impact Factor: SJIF 2020 = 6.882
Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR)
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INTRODUCTION
The idea of a democratic system of governance connotes equality and rights of opportunity for
everybody, recognition of accepted governance, representativeness, popular sovereignty,
minority rights, consensus consultation, right to select among alternative programmes, agreement
on issues of primary importance, along with basically periodic elections (Oke, 2005, 2010), it
gives room for participation in the political decision making process, it refute uncertainty,
autocracy and protects individual personality and values (Ake, 1991, 1996). Democratic ideals
lay emphasis on open competition, popular and accountable association, transparency, freedom
to organize, protest and guarantee civil rights and wellbeing. While governance involves the
capacity to formulate and implement workable policies, and strongly associated with the level to
which government is perceived and accepted as legitimate. It is concerned with improving
communal wellbeing, receptive to the requirements of public welfare, capacity to guarantee law
and order, deliver indispensable public services and able to create the right policy environment
for productive activities (Cheema and Maguire, 2004; Sharma, 2007). Conventionally,
government has definite primary roles which are universal and do not vary from one country to
another or from one administration to another. There are, in addition
, in contemporary political
dispensations, certain more explicit goals and objectives which a particular political party in
power may have chosen as its
own focal point which
it advanced in
its electioneering pledges,
and on the basis of which it got elected into power. Aspects of those goals, objectives and
programs are usually assigned to individual government ministries and departments
to
accomplish. Because administrations have specified tenures, timetables are by and large set for
the execution of such programs. It is the duty of an elected official, a political appointee or an
office holder to make his/her self acquainted with the explicit goals and programs assigned to
his/her office and to utilize modern managerial techniques to fulfill such responsibilities with a
view to ensuring the discharge of effective service delivery.
In Nigeria, politics is overshadowed by non-accountability and impunity hence, those elected to
political offices as well as political appointees/leaders do not consider accountability to the
electorates but to themselves and their political mentors. The problem with the Nigerian political
structure is the ineffective implementation of policies, neglect of campaign promises and gross
abuse of political power (Anao, 1999; Osaghae, 2006). The objective of this study therefore, is to
examine the concepts of governance and service delivery (facilitated by democratic doctrines) as
significant features of Nigeria‘s political dispensation; to assess the current condition of key
services (such as health, education, water and electricity) and to what extent these services have
impacted the citizenry; and to suggest appropriate policy towards the attainment of effective and
sustainable public service delivery in Nigeria. However, this study is not oblivious of the fact
that, other forms of government apart from democracy have from time to time produced some
acceptable level of governance and delivery of public goods. This study was conducted between
March, 2012 and August, 2014. The Study is divided into six sections. Following this section is
the conceptual analysis. The next section deals with
governance and service delivery in Nigeria,
problems and realities. The next portion discussed the methodology. The following section deals
with statistical analyses and implication of findings while the following section deals with
conclusion and recommendations.
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