Sentences with phrase «democratic civilian rule»
According to the CIA Factbook, «comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep - seated poverty, social unrest, and illegal drug production.»
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The contest is largely between the All Progressives Congress, an amalgam of four opposition parties that is bent on wresting power from the ruling center - right People's Democratic Party, which has been in power since 1999, when the country returned to civilian rule.
«Unless we apply the break and uphold the rule of law and democratic conventions and practices in all ramifications, our greatest losses, moving forward, will not be economic recession, lack of critical infrastructure, among others, but an irredeemably deteriorated civilian rule where the decisions of the courts, letters and spirit of the law, resolutions of the legislature, electoral choices of Nigerians as expressed through the ballot no longer count.»
His People's Democratic Party (PDP) has dominated Nigerian politics since civilian rule was restored in 1999 but now faces its toughest election challenge, from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The EU Ambassador averred that since the country's return to civilian rule in 1999, the EU had consistently identified with and supported democratic institutions, key stakeholders and had so far committed more than 100 Euros to supporting various institutions in the country.