IWF

Author(s):
Adeleke R.S., sanrasheed2@Gmail.com, 08161377164

Abstract: System of governance is not alien in the Shariah. This serves as a reason why Islam is referred to as not only a religion but also a complete comprehensive manner of life. It establishes a unique system of administration that covers all spectra of life politically, economically, socially etc. Nigeria’s democratic system of governance at the present era calls for change in theory and practice. This among others is due to incessant problems encountered everyday by the system. The historical survey of Nigerian politics is traced to pre-colonial, colonial and the post-colonial eras. However, none of the eras is favourable to a good system of administration that caters for the needs of the nation. The word democracy as it connotes takes new dimension in Nigerian political system. In lieu of being the government of the benefits of the people; it serves as the system of administration that is characterised with oppression of the masses and survival of the fittest. A system of government that disenfranchises the fundamental human rights of the masses and turns the leaders against the led who elected them. By and large, this work is carried out on the need for change from practices of Nigerian democracy to Islamic theocracy as the only mechanisms to curb the incessant problems that associate with the Nigerian governance. The work serves as an impetus to the concept of governance in the Shariah and also provides panaceas to curb the menace of bad administration in the nation. Both the primary and secondary sources were employed and suggestions were put forward to the society en-mass on the needs to adopt Islamic theocracy not only in Nigeria but in the world generally.