The Need for National Political Reform Conference (3), by Afe Babalola

Indeed it is an irony that as a young school teacher, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (who was to later emerge as the First Executive President in the America-styled administration of the defunct Second Republic) has in 1948 written strongly against the amalgamation. The Northern opposition to the amalgamation process was to be re-enacted in 1953

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