leadership crises and decline of opposition parties in

2.1.3 Models of Competitive Political Party Behaviour 25
2.1.3a The Vote-Seeking Party 26
2.1.3b The Office-Seeking Party 26
2.1.3c The Policy-Seeking Party 27
2.1.3d Critique of the Models 27
2.1.4a The Relevance of Party leadership 32
2.1.4b Internal Democracy and Leadership Selection 33
2.1.5 Political Opposition in Democracies 35
2.1.5a Ethnicity and Politics of Opposition 44
2.1.6 Opposition Parties in Contemporary Africa 46
2.1.6a Explaining the Weakness of the Opposition Parties in Africa 52
2.1.6b Political Opposition in Nigerian Politics: A Review 56
2.1.7 Political Opposition and the 1999 Nigerian Constitution 65
2.2 Theoretical Framework 67
2.2a Group Theory 67
2.2b Class Theory 70
2.2c Elite Theory 72
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Introduction 78
3.2 Selection Criteria for the Case Study 78
3.3 Techniques of Data Collection 78
3.3.1 In-depth Interview 78
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