CHAPTER I
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
SegunAyobolu(2011) provided occupants of public office at all levels in the second republic felt that their positions entitled them to unbridled access to public resources with which they not only satisfied their own material needs but also serviced the needs or wants of subaltern clients… This kind of criminal diversion of public resources for selfish private ends starved the polity of funds fordevelopment, increased poverty and inequality, and intensified an unhealthy rivalry and competition for public office that triggered pervasive instability.The crippling consequences of dysfunctional governance are experienced in all areas of life in Nigeria. There is a fundamental contradiction between patron client and the provision of efficient public services.The research intends to investigate patron- client politics and national development in Nigeria.
1.3 RESEARCH QUESTION
1 What is the nature of patron client politics?
2 What constitute national development?
1.4 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
1 To appraise the nature of patron client politics in Nigeria
2 To appraise national development
3 To determine the effect of patron client politics on national development
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The study shall project the effect of patron client politics on the nations developmentWith a view to determining measures to reverse the trend in the interest of chanelling publicResources to national development.
1.6 STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS
1 H0 The level of national development in Nigeria is low
H1 The level of national development in Nigeria is high
2 H0 The level of patron client politics in Nigeria is low
H1 The level of patron client politics in Nigeria is high
3 H0 The effect of patron client politics on national development in Nigeria is low
H1 The effect of patron client politics on national development in Nigeria is high
1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The study is focused on the appraisal of patron client politics and its effect on national development.It analyzes the nature of patron client politics and profers measures to mitigate and reverse the trend so as to enhance the chanelling of economic resources to national development.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
PATRON CLIENT POLITICS
Richard A. Joseph… is usually credited with first using the term prebendalism to describe patron-client or neopatrimonialism inNigeria. Since then the term has commonly been used in scholarly literature and textbooks. The Catholic Encyclopedia defines a prebend as the “right of member of chapter to his share in the revenues of a cathedral.” Joseph used the term to describe the sense of entitlement that many people in Nigeria feel they have to the revenues of the Nigerian state. Elected officials, government workers, and members of the ethnic and religious groups to which they belong feel they have a right to a share of government revenues Joseph wrote: “According to the theory of prebendalism, state offices are regarded as prebends that can be appropriated by officeholders, who use them to generate material benefits for themselves and their constituents and kin groups…” As a result of that kind of patron-client or identity politics, Nigeria has regularly been one of the lowest ranked nations for political transparency by Transparency International in its Corruption Perceptions
DEVELOPMENT
ROGER(1976) describe development as the type of social change in which new ideas are introduce within a social system to produce higher capital incomes and levels of living through more production, Method and improved social organization.
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