1978Event
NPP, PRP, and GNPP complete the five-party field
Nnamdi Azikiwe's NPP, Aminu Kano's PRP, and Ibrahim Waziri's GNPP joined NPN and UPN in the 1979 presidential race.
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1978
NPP, PRP, and GNPP complete the five-party field
Nnamdi Azikiwe's NPP, Aminu Kano's PRP, and Ibrahim Waziri's GNPP joined NPN and UPN in the 1979 presidential race.
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Nnamdi Azikiwe's NPP, Aminu Kano's PRP, and Ibrahim Waziri's GNPP joined NPN and UPN in the 1979 presidential race. The party field mixed old nationalist figures with newer ideological blocs.
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