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Nigeria’s Political Executive Elite: Paradoxes and Continuities, 1960-2007

textabstractThis study is concerned with the circulation, composition and character of
the core political executive elite in post-colonial Nigeria over successive political
regimes and with changing sources and levels of government revenue.
The true riddle is perhaps not the instability of the post-colonial governments,
as manifest in the frequent regime breakdowns accompanied by rapid
turnover of the political executive elite. Rather, the larger puzzle lies in
the composition and interactivity of the political executive elite since Nigeria’s
independence in 1960. The incessantly troubled manner in which political
leadership has changed raises serious doubts about societal influence
on elite circulation, composition and character, and by extension, on the
political system. This leads to the main question of this research, which is
twofold: What social background and styles of interaction have characterized
the circulation and composition of the core political executive elite in
Nigeria? Have core political executive elite patterns limited the scope of the
political system through the succession of different governments with shifts
and influxes of economic resources in the post-colonial period?
The main objective of the study is to analyse the historical and dynamic
composition of the core political executive elite by looking at the periodic
circulation (flow) of elite members from specific social and interaction
backgrounds.