POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND STEWARDSHIP AT LOCAL LEVEL IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC (AN EXAMINATION OF FUNTUA LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONSTITUENCY 2007 - 2011)

Abstract

Political representation remains one of the cardinal principle of any democratic government, the world over. Government all over the world want to called or associated with democracy mainly because people express their will through political representative(s). There can be no democracy unless the condition of society itself is democratic, by which it is mean that, it should be nearly equal among all the people. For Alex de Tacquexill, written in 1835 on democracy of America. “It is this general equality of condition among the people that constitutes the real essence of democracy”. Social equality as a condition of democracy does not however, mean the absolute equality of all individuals i n all respects, such as wealth, income and social position. Social equality results in the main from the freedom of individuals to freely engaged in whatever occupation such as business, learning and even sports activities of as representation.