JOURNAL OF LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
(NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION)
LIAONING GONGCHENG JISHU DAXUE XUEBAO (ZIRAN KEXUE BAN)
辽宁工程技术大学学报（自然科学版）
THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL PATRONAGE ON PUBLIC SERVICE RECRUITMENT IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC
FAKOREDE, Gabriel Adeshina, OMOTAYO, Busuyi Joshua, BOLUWADE, Boluwaji Ibironke
Abstract
In all civilizations, peace, security and development as utmost importance are achievable through the working of public service as the machinery of any government. This study analyzed the impacts of political patronage on public service recruitment in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. Essentially, it is a literature-based study, descriptive and at the same time analytical and its framework of analysis is the Weberian bureaucratic theory and elite theory. It concludes that for as long as patronage politics continues in Nigeria and interferes in the public sector recruitment and selection process, the public service would continue to perform below expectations and accommodate impunity and corruption. We therefore recommend institutional overhauling that should discourage political interference in public service recruitment system in Nigeria.
Keywords: Politics, Political Patronage, Public Service, Recruitment, Development