Impact of Weak Institutions on Political Corruption in Nigeria

The aim of this book is to examine how the weak institution has encouraged political corruption in Nigeria. North see institution as 'humanly-devised constraints that shape human interaction'. In explaining this research findings that political corruption in Nigeria is associated with weak and ineffective formal and informal institutions. The Nigerian political elite capitalised on ethnoreligious differences of Nigeria in manipulating the formal institutions in attaining their political ambitions. Tribalism, religious sentiment that promote primordial tribal/regional loyalties rather than national identity and political godfatherism played a huge role in the manipulation of the formal institutions that impacted negatively in the discharge of their constitutional roles that allows corrupt practice to continue with almost absolute impunity. Grounded on data analysis, the book concludes that both the formal and informal institutions have become victims of political manipulation. This in turn rendered them very ineffective in regulating the criminal behaviour of the Nigeria political elite.

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Dr. Lawal is a lecturer and Head of Quality Control Department at the Maritime Academy of Nigeria. Lawal graduated as the best student in 1999 and obtained PhD in year 2012 at the University of Birmingham UK. On the other hand, Salawu-Adeitan obtained MA from Birmingham City University UK in 2018. Presently he is a doctoral Researcher in the UK.