In literally all established democracies, parties represent ideologies that their members try to bring intro governance. In the U.S, for example, Democrats are (generally) liberals who lean towards socialism whereas Republicans are conservatives leaning towards strict applications of capitalist theory, small government and private enterprise. Even in India, the ruling party represents a very strong interpretation of Hindu nationalism. In less-developed democracies, such as in Iraq, parties may represent ethnic realities (in that context, a Sunni-Shia divide).

In Nigeria, we can be thankful that our largest parties (APC, PDP) have escaped that ethnic phase (think of the PDP political monopoly throughout the country for the last 16 years, or the sudden rise of the APC throughout the North and West in a manner that unlikely to split along ethnic lines). This being the case, what exactly do our parties represent? What are their ideologies?

Wikipedia generally describes the PDP as a right-leaning org and the APC as a left-leaning one, but what evidence is there for this? Lagos state, an AC/APC state for longest has some of the most neoliberal/capitalist administrations around. What then, ideologically, separates the two parties?

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what distinguishes one from the other is one sees corruption as a way of LIFE while the other sees it as a threat to the existence of Nigeria and her people.