Historicizing Interest Groups and Lobbying in Nigeria's Legislative Framework

this article analyses the nexus between legislation and interest group inputs in shaping the course, content and the context of legislation in emerging democracies with particular emphasis on Nigeria. It is within the purview of the paper that legislation is usually a process undergoing input-output experimentations and political diagnosis. Utilizing secondary data, the article historicizes the contributory roles of interest groups in legislation in Nigeria. Since participatory democracy thrives on robust deliberations on public policies, the article pinpoints the potency as well as the importance of interest groups in a democracy. It avers that interest groups play a very important role in democracy as champions of groups and public interests