Author: Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu

Publisher: Aike Books, Ibadan, Nigeria (1998)

Pages: 82

Price: £7.00

A definitive work that has laid to permanent rest the controversy that has dogged the results of the parliamentary elections into the Western Nigeria Regional House of Assembly in 1951. Was there really, as claimed that some parliamentarians crossed carpet to enable Action Group form the government? The Action Group (AG) led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo won the elections and formed the government, which he headed. But the NCNC led by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, also claimed victory, but without establishing sufficient evidence for this “victory”. The claims and counter-claims have endured in political discourse in Nigeria for nearly half a century after the event.

With painstaking exposition of facts and figures, the author gives a lie to the NCNC’s claim to electoral victory and challenges its surviving leaders to prove their assertion to the Nigerian public. This is a must for the general reader and the honest political inquirer.

About the Author

Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu is a consummate grassroots politician of the Awolowo Political School of Thought whose hallmark is discipline, service, integrity and loyalty. Educated in Nigeria, he was organizing secretary of the Action Group, Lagos Zone, 1958-1962. He was later an elected councilor and Lagos State Commissioner, holding various portfolios, including Agriculture, Health and Social Welfare, or Sport and Social Development, and Local Government and Community Development.