This chapter examines GovernorsGovernors and dynamics of partyParty politics politicsParty politics including the following issues: political partiesPolitical parties and the shaping of gubernatorial politics, party politicsParty politics and internal power strugglesInternal power struggles, party politicsParty politics, internal power strugglesInternal power struggles, intra-partyParties conflictsConflicts and factionalismFactionalism, politics of decampingPolitics of decamping, GovernorsGovernors, partyParties financing and godfatherismGodfatherism, party politicsParty politics on governance and development.