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Abstract

For a long time, there has been the debate among scholars of the presence or absence of a relationship between politics and policy. Thus, this study examined whether or not there is a relationship between politics and policy through the policy process of agricultural sector in Nigeria. The study examined the different definitions of politics and policy/public policy expressing the importance of one to the other. The study also examined the Nigeria agricultural policy and its institutional framework and examined the interplay between politics and policy in the agricultural policy process formulation. The study utilized the secondary method of data collection. The various actors and their contributions to policy process in agricultural sector of Nigeria have been used to show the way and manner in which politics is an indispensable part of policy process.  This paper, therefore, concluded that there is always interaction between politics and public policy at every stage of policy process, resulting in a close relationship which makes it rather difficult to divorce one from the other.

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