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The word "government" is derived from the Latin words "GuberNaculum" meaning the framework through which the executive functions, judicial functions, and legislative functions as well as administrative business of the state are carried out. In other words, government can be seen as the administrative machinery (i.e the Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary) of the state for the imposition of order and enforcement of its will. Simply put, government is a body that makes law and enforce law for the general well-being of the society. According to Appadorai (1975), government is an agency or machinery through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed and realized. In the same vein, government constitutes the political authority of the state. However, government in the widest sense involves the legislature (rule making), the executive (rule-application) and the judiciary (rule-adjudication). According to Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) a state without governmen...

The study of political system has been enriched through the contribution of great scholars such as David Easton (1965), Robert Dahl (1963) and Gabrielle Almond and Powell (1978). However, Olaniyi (2001) asserts that the study of political system constitute institutional approach to the study of political phenomenon. Be that as it may, Political system maybe defined as the pattern of political relationship through which decisions are made for the society. To Robert Dahl, political system is any persistence pattern of human relationship that involves to a language extent power rule or authority. David Easton suggested that political system can be seen as system of interaction through which authoritative decisions are made for the society. Not only that, political system tries to describe a special arrangement through which the society is made habitable and governable. Simply put, it is the instrument or mechanism through which the activities and the conduct of the affairs of the people a...