Political Education and Multi-Party System in Nigeria: Implications to Societal Development

The study investigated political education and multi-party system in Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consist 3 senatorial zones, namely Anambra North, Anambra south and Anambra central with a total of 4914622. The sample size was 600 politicians selected through multi-stage and simple random sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by three experts, two in the area of sociology of education and the other expert in political science, all in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The reliability was calculated using Cronbach Alpha with a coefficient value of 0.81, and 0.79 respectively. Data collected were analyzed using mean. The findings of the study showed the role of civic and voter education in addressing the challenges of multi-party system in Nigeria Some of these challenges that are common in Nigeria’s multiparty system were able to be addressed by political education. It was therefore concluded that political education must be taught at all levels and even through mass media, and social media to address the challenges of multiparty system in Nigeria. It was recommended among others that the remuneration of political office holders should be reduced so that they would see political positions as a call to serve and not to amass wealth.