The study examined politics and governance a critique of the 2019 Nigeria presidential election. Specifically, the study examined the; effect of political apathy on governance in Nigeria, extent of political apathy in the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria and effect of good governance on the economic growth of Nigeria. The population consists of 562 staff of Independent National Electoral Commission in the Southeastern Nigeria. The study used the survey approach. The primary sources used were used to administer 290 copies of questionnaire to the sampled staff of Independent National Electoral Commission in the Southeastern Nigeria, 282 were returned and accurately filled. The validity of the instrument was tested using content analysis and the result was good. The reliability was tested using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). It gave a reliability co-efficient of 0.87, which was also good. The hypotheses were analyzed using f-statistics (ANOVA). Result of the analysis shows that Political apathy has significant effect on governance in Nigeria. It was also observed that there is political apathy in the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria. The study further indicates that good governance has significant effect on the economic growth of Nigeria. Political apathy is a product of electoral violence and it negatively affects upon the electoral process and its outcome. There is, therefore, the urgent need to embark on serious holistic electoral reforms that will bring about free, fair and credible elections to stimulate popular participation in the electoral process. As INEC prepares for the 2019 general elections, it must study the nature, causes, dimensions and consequences of political apathy within the context of Nigeria's nascent democracy.
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