Parties and Politics in Northern Nigeria
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Benue Province
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GRASS ROOTS POLITICS
IDU
Jos Division
Lower North
MHA
Middle Belt
Middle Belt State
Native Authority
Native Authority Council
NCNC
Northern House
Northern Nigeria
Northern Peoples Congress
POLI TICAL
Political Party
Provincial Executive
Te Ch
Tic
UMBC
Uthman Dan Fodio
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- ISBN 9780714616582
- Weight: 1020g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 09 Aug 1968
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 1968. In retrospect it now seems clear that the federal elections of December 1964 and the constitutional crisis which followed mark the apogee of the civilian government headed by Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. The ‘broadbased’ government which emerged from the crisis represented, at best, a shaky compromise. A decisive jolt came when in the early hours of January 15, 1966, a group of young army officers, mainly Ibo, led some soldiers in a coup which ended in the death of the Federal Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar. The regional Premiers of the North and the West were also killed, as were a number of high-ranking Hausa and Yoruba officers. This volume asks what went wrong and ledto Nigeria’s slow decline into civil chaos and the possibility of political disintegration.
