SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, IMPLICATIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND LIMITATIONS

interplay and action existing between parties and democracies should show the parties’ adherence to internal democratic structures .

Furthermore, this work examined the activities of Godfatherism in imo state and as a whole Nigeria as it contributes seriously towards the undermining of internal and external party democracy as a result of candidate imposition by the Godfathers during the party primaries as PDP has failed totally in upholding the principles of democracy in Nigeria politics. Democracy depends on parties to survive, since the structure of elections, from citizen participation to candidate selection and presentation of competing political programsare done by political parties. The role of political parties becomes viable when there is an orderly political succession in the society by regularizing the procedure for leadership succession and for assimilation of new groups into the political system through embracing of a true internal and external party democracy.

2. Political parties should embrace and encourage the practice of internal democracy as by so doing would reduce the activities of the party elites (godfathers) within the party and also ensure democratic consolidation.

3. Political parties should not see the political system as the property of any political party that occupies the system, because this is one of the greatest orientation of political parties in Nigeria.

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