In 1975, about five years after the bloody Nigerian civil war, the military government of Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo began the process of dismantling parliamentary democracy, a British colonial legacy. The objective, according to the Daily Times of October 19, 1975, was to “discourage
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