Abstract:
Democratic consolidations in Nigeria have
been hampered by the incessant decamping of political
office holders and gladiators. In an attempt to provide a
theoretical basis to study the dynamics of party
switching in Nigeria, we formulate a new deterministic
compartmental model. We prove the positivity of
solutions of the model, conduct the stability analysis via
the principle of stability of nonlinear differential
equations and carry out simulations to verify the
theoretical results. Findings from the simulation show
that political office holders lose their places in the
hearts of the electorates when they fail to deliver
electoral promises which prompts party defection.
