Impeachment in the Nigerian Presidential System

Omololu Fagbadebo is a Research Fellow at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He holds a doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He taught Political Science at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was the Press Secretary to the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Nigeria, from 1999 to 2003. He participated in the Study of the American Politics and Political Thought Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2010.

Chapter 1: Power, Politics in a Presidential System.- Chapter 2: Impeachment in Presidential Systems: Comparative Features and Characteristics.- Chapter 3: Structures, Actors and Impeachment in the Nigerian Presidential System: Content and Context.- Chapter 4: From Parliamentarism to Presidentialism: Different Governing Systems and Practice with Similar Outcomes in Leadership Removal in Nigeria.- Chapter 5: Impeachment Cases in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.- Chapter 6: Experience turned Sour: Impeachment Episodes in Osun State.- Chapter 7: Judicial Review and the Politics of impeachment in Nigeria’s political system.- Chapter 8: Patron-client Politics, Impeachment and Governance Crisis in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.- Chapter 9: The Failure of Impeachment in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: Sacred cows and the scourge of Gross Misconduct.- Chapter 10: Making Impeachment an Instrument of Accountability and Good Governance in Nigeria’s Presidential System.