John Alechenu takes a look at Nigeria’s struggles with secessionist agitations which appear to have worsened in recent times
It is worthy of note that these diverse groups had different identities, religions as well as administrative systems, which they were all keen to preserve before they were forced together. Each had its set of elite who dominated the political class. The Action Group held the West, the Northern Peoples Congress was in charge in the North while the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroon, was the party of choice in the East.
He said the North rejected the motion “because as at 1953, the entire Northern Region, which had 75 per cent of Nigeria’s landmass and about 55 per cent of the country’s population, had only one graduate, Dr. R.A.B Dikko. These tensions have refused to go away several decades later. Nigeria first became a republic in 1963, but soon afterwards bowed to military rule, after a bloody coup d’état on January 15, 1966.
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