The Emergence of Political Parties in Southern Nigeria
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2024-12
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Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Nigeria
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This chapter is concerned with two subjects: the emergence of political parties in southern Nigeria and party politics in southern Nigeria. To make the treatise meaningful, the discourse here explores the formation of all the political parties under Nigeria's scattered democratic dispensations and draws on the consequential behaviours of the prominent political actors in party politics and the far-reaching features of the various political groups to explain the performances of the political parties in southern Nigeria. Logically, therefore, the trajectory of this concern spans from 1922, the period in the colonial era when political party formation commenced in the territory colonially described as Nigeria, through independence in i960 and the early years of the post-colonial nation state, up to the present day 2023 of sovereign Nigeria.