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The chapter examines the dynamics of the National Assembly elections conducted on the same day as the presidential election. The analysis is situated within the context of the significance of the election as dictated by the changing party configurations in the National Assembly occasioned by the emergence of the APC and the defection of legislators from the ruling PDP. While the elections did not differ remarkably from the others, it resulted in the creation of a majority for the new ruling APC in the two chambers of the National Assembly. Issues such as party primaries and candidate selection, election integrity, election results and new composition of the NASS along party, gender and leadership lines were given consideration, with strong comparative ferment with previous elections under the Fourth Republic. This enables us to tease out important elements of continuity and change in the National Assembly elections.
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Hamalai, L., Egwu, S., Omotola, J.S. (2017). The 2015 National Assembly Election. In: Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54096-2_11
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