Politics without political parties.

[Gozie51]

And the advantage of regional heads going through the independent route is also placing service heads who suit the standards and the right objectives, according to their respective fields, without being mixed up by parties, they have to raise them according to their wishes, it's all up to him, so if he really builds It's definitely better, because now politics is cruel without anyone wanting to know, both relatives and friends, if they don't help them during the campaign they won't help them either.

Yes I think an independent candidate or individual candidate can be held accountable more than the political party candidates because they hold allegiance more to the people and not to few in power only. Political parties don't run inclusive government, it favours the people in the party more than the generality of the people.and that is what leads into corruption.

[Volimack]

Political parties are formed by the people democracy works best when governments have incentives to pursue broadly inclusive policies that benefit citizens as a whole. This is likely when political competition is strong and the government can effectively legislate. Reduced competition between political parties and political fragmentation that increases as the number of parties in national legislatures increases is bad for democracy.

[yazher]

Mostly those who are in political parties win the elections because of their wide influence among the voters and there are only a few candidates in our country's history that actually demolished their opponent despite being independent. they are those who have enough fame to promote themselves without getting into political parties and most of those people are senators. President on the other hand cannot handle such things except when people request them to run.

[Zoomic]

Politics without political parties functioning in a country will be the best.
When contesting for election The only people that are qualified to run are those forwarded by a political party as there candidate there by making it hard for the people's choice to run.
When a political party is functioning in a country and one among which is on power any other person that those not belong to there political party will be seen as an opposition, that is why you see position being given to people that are not qualified for such position all because they are in the same political party there by causing damage to countries economy.

Political parties often have one common ideology, goals, aims and objectives which every of its members are expected to abide by and work towards. This means individual ideologies does not count. In a normal society free of corruption (which is kind of impossible anyway),  having Political parties with good ideologies is just what the people need. An elected leader with a selfish agenda might not be able to actualize his aims because there are other political members available correcting his every moves.

But, the statements above are just like a mirage, they don't happen in real sense as every politician wants a share of the national cake too. There is also no guarantee that if there are no political parties and qualified candidates are voted base on the people's choice, things will be fine. Such a system is capable of making the elected leader too powerful. Remember the words of Lord Acton

power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely

[knowngunman]

Politics without political parties functioning in a country will be the best.
When contesting for election The only people that are qualified to run are those forwarded by a political party as there candidate there by making it hard for the people's choice to run.
When a political party is functioning in a country and one among which is on power any other person that those not belong to there political party will be seen as an opposition, that is why you see position being given to people that are not qualified for such position all because they are in the same political party there by causing damage to countries economy.

You were making sense from the beginning of your statement but it seems you lost it from the part I bold in your post. I agree with you that some positions are being given to unqualified people as a compensation for being in the party but it is still much better compared to when there's no political party. Political parties serves as a check on the candidates in their various platforms and even recommend those to appoint when necessary and also reject some appointments if they are not well convinced with it but with no existence of political parties, this check and balance will not longer be there and politicians can misuse such opportunities to appoint whosoever without any recommendations or objection. I really understand your point but believe me, a system without political party will be the worse system especially in Africa continent where Nepotism is at it peak. The existence of multiple parties is the best practice for them to minimize the abuse of power by politicians.

Again, not all appointments are being distributed to party loyalist, there are few appointments given to opposition too to maintain balance of power. The problem with this political party is that, politician has created enmity among themselves in different parties and make it look like a rival. It's not suppose to be so, in fact, opposition can also be a contributor to a better nation by offering ideas to party in power but they choose to make things worse in order to take advantage of the situation and market themselves.