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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). |