Volume 06 Issue 10 October 2023
Nwokoroeze Chinonye Nnenna
Department of Political Science Enugu State University Of Science And Technology (Esut)
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i10-07Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
This study accessed the impact of executive-legislature relations on national development in Nigeria with special emphasis on the 8th National Assembly which ran its course from 2015 to 2019. The objective of the study is to determine the extent to which the relationship between the executive and the 8th National Assembly have impacted on national development in Nigeria within the period under review. This study anchored on structural-functional approach propounded by Gabriel Almond, ex-post facto research design, documentary method of data collection and qualitative descriptive method of data analysis. It discovered that the fragile relationship between the executive and the 8th National Assembly negatively impacted on national development in Nigeria, so it went further to recommend that the National Orientation Agency must take it as a paramount duty to conduct periodic seminars for our legislators and executives in order to tune their minds toward national development.
KEYWORDS:Executive, National Assembly, Legislative. National
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