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Federal election sets independence government
The 1959 federal election produced the coalition arrangement that took Nigeria into independence, with the Northern People's Congress and allies central to federal power.
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1959
Federal election sets independence government
The 1959 federal election produced the coalition arrangement that took Nigeria into independence, with the Northern People's Congress and allies central to federal power.
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The 1959 federal election produced the coalition arrangement that took Nigeria into independence, with the Northern People's Congress and allies central to federal power. It matters because independence began with coalition bargaining among regionally rooted parties, not with a single national party.
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