The Legislature in Nigeria’s Presidential Democracy of the Fourth Republic

​Omololu Fagbadebo is a Research Associate and a Contract Lecturer at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Previously, he taught Political Science at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was Press Secretary to the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Nigeria, 1999-2003. Fagbadebo participated in the Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) on American Politics and Political Thought Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, in 2010. His research focuses on comparative politics, legislative studies, public governance, development studies, public institutions, and African government and politics. His book publications include Public Procurement, Corruption and the Crisis of Governance in Africa (2021), co-edited with Prof. Nirmala Dorasamy, published by Palgrave Macmillan; Democratic Practices and Governance in Nigeria (2021), co-edited with two other colleagues, published by Routledge; Impeachment in the Nigerian Presidential System: Challenges, Successes and the Way Forward (2020), published by Palgrave Macmillan; and Perspectives on the Legislature and the Prospects of Accountability in Nigeria and South Africa (2019), co-edited with Prof. Fayth Ruffin, published by Springer International Publishing.  Mojeed Olujinmi A. Alabi is a governance expert, legal practitioner, Professor of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor of Public Law at the Osun State University, Nigeria. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Previously, Alabi was the speaker of the Osun State House Assembly (May 1999 - May 2003) and a member of the House of Representatives (June 2015 – June 2019). Between 2008 and 2010 he served as an expert in good governance, ethics, and professionalism at the Public Sector and Head, Parliamentary Capacity Building Programme of the Centre Africain de Formation et de Recherche Administratives pour le Developpement (CAFRAD), based in Tangiers, the Kingdom of Morocco. Alabi also worked for the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Abuja, Nigeria. His research and consultancy activities focus on the reform of governance institutions, particularly on the role of the judiciary and the legislature in facilitating good governance. He is the author of The Supreme Court in the Nigerian Political System 1963-1997 (2002), author of ECOWAS Court and Regional Integration in West Africa (2016), co-author of Perspectives on the Legislature in the Government of Nigeria (2010), editor of Unbroken Legacy of Service: Speaker Bello’s Twelve Years under Three Administrations in Osun State (2011), and the author to various journal papers and book chapters. Alabi is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and has been in legal practice through his law firm, Mojeed Alabi & Co. (Adebola chambers) since he was called to the Bar in 1993.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Legislature in a Presidential System: Structure, functions and expectations.- Chapter 3. The Historical Overview of the Evolution of the Legislature in Nigeria.- Chapter 4. Legislative Oversight as Accountability Mechanism: The Nigerian Perspective.- Chapter 5. The Politics of Legislative Investigations in Nigeria's National Assembly in the Fourth Republic.- Chapter 6. The Legislature and Social Development in Nigeria, 2015-2019.- Chapter 7. Representative democracy, political disengagement, and young people's perceptions of legislators in Nigeria.- Chapter 8. Corruption and Executive Interference in Legislative Oversight in Nigeria's Fourth Republic.- Chapter 9. Constituency Projects in Nigeria's 8^th National Assembly, 2015-2019.- Chapter 10. Nigeria's Presidential System and the Vicissitudes of Executive-Legislative Conflicts in the Fourth Republic.- Chapter 11. Party Affiliation and Law-making Efficiency: A Study of the Seventh andEighth Nigerian National Assemblies.- Chapter 12. Comparing the 'New' and 'Old' Regimes of Legislative-Executive Relations and its Implications in Governance: Evidence from Osun State.- Chapter 13. Nigerian Presidentialism and legislative decadence in the Fourth Republic, 2015-2021.- Chapter 14. Legislative Turnover in Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Issues and Implications.- Chapter 15. The Legislature, the Rule of Law and Impeachment in Nigeria's Fourth Republic.- Chapter 16. The Legislature, Subnational Governments and Child's Education Rights in Nigeria's Fourth Republic.- Chapter 17. Constitutional Underpinnings of Partisanship and Consensus Building in Nigeria's National Assembly.- Chapter 18. Two Decades of Legislative Activities in Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Issues, Challenges, and the Way Forward.