The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution and Search for Common Ground have warned that voter apathy and the monetisation of politics pose grave threats to Nigeria’s democratic survival.
The agencies noted that the challenges confronting Nigerian democracy stem largely from inadequate citizen participation and weak democratic culture rather than flaws in democracy itself.
The Director-General of the Institute, Dr Joseph Ochogwu, and the Director of Programmes at Search for Common Ground, Gift Omoniwa, raised the alarm on Thursday in Abuja at a joint press conference with Search for Common Ground to commemorate Nigeria’s 2026 Democracy Day.
Ochogwu specifically said findings from the Institute’s Strategic Conflict Assessments and field-based interventions consistently revealed that pressures on Nigeria’s democratic system were linked to underlying deficits in civic engagement rather than to democracy as a concept.
“Many of the challenges confronting Nigerian democracy today are not necessarily failures of democracy itself. Rather, they
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