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Parties And Politics In Northern Nigeria
Author: B. J. DUDLEY Category: Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion
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The pattern of Nigerian politics was perhaps radically altered when at the 1958 Constitutional Conference in London, the decision was taken to base representation in the Federal Parliament on a population basis rather than on the previous (pre-1958) system, which was one of equality of representation between the North and the South. With this change, which gave Northern Nigeria a representation greater than the combined total of the East and West Regions, the balance of power tended to shift to the North. With ‘regionally’1 based political parties, and a tendency for these parties to control the regions in which they are based, the possibility of a one-party system emerging in Nigeria was suggested in 1962.
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