Democracy, in its simplest term, is a system of government where the common interest of the majority is accommodated and articulated. A democratic system works within a political system that recognizes and acknowledges the majority interest. A political system is an orderly arrangement of institutions and machineries by which people rule, while a pattern of political organization is how people rule themselves over a long established period. Although a political system has a fixed pattern, it is dynamic, and not static. Such was the nature of most political systems in pre-colonial Nigerian states and societies.