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Title:Inter-Party Political Relations in Nigeria, 1979-1983
Author:Okpu, Ugbana
Year:1985
Periodical:Afrika Spectrum
Volume:20
Issue:2
Pages:191-209
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:political parties
presidential systems
Politics and Government
Abstract:To ensure the emergence of national political parties, the Federal Military Government stipulated conditions for the formation of political parties before transferring power, in 1979, to civilians. Thus the formation and registration of the NPN, UPN, NPP, PRP, GNPP, by the Federal Electoral Commission were deemed to have been in accordance with the relevant sections of the 1979 Constitution on party formation. The return of the military, on December 31, 1983, did raise several questions: How did the political parties perceive their roles in the Second Republic? Did political activities offer competition for the healthy and wholesome growth of the nation? In what atmosphere were political activities conducted? What lessons may be distilled from Nigeria's experiment with the American presidential system of government? This paper offers an analysis of the attitude of the political parties to each other, the relationship that existed between them, and examines the impact of such attitudes and relations on political developments in the Second Republic. An attempt is also made to distill some lessons from Nigeria's experiment with the imported presidential system of government. - Fig., notes, sum. (French and German).
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