Ethno-Political Conflicts andthe One Nigeria Project: Issues and Lessons from The First Republic, 1960-66
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
One major challenge post-colonial Nigeria, since the first republic till date faces is the question of ethnic rivalry in her socio-political landscape which have made the actualization of the “One Nigeria” project a tall order. Thus, the studyexplores the effect of ethnic politics and the subsequent rupturing of conflictsduring Nigeria‟s first republic and what lessons the fourth democratic dispensation can draw from the past in order to avert similar issues that severely bedeviled the socio-economic and political landscape of Nigeriaduring the period under survey through a critical evaluation of the crowded events that characterized that period. Data obtained via primary and secondary sources were employed to conduct a critical study with an analytical and narrative historical methodology. Consequently, findings from the research revealed that Nigerian elites during the era of the first republic paid more allegiance to their various ethnic enclaves rather than to the One Nigeria project, a situation that has best been described as prebendalism by Richard Joseph. Again, ethnic politics has remained a cancerous substance militating against Nigeria‟s growth and development till date and it is regrettable that this sinister approach (ethnicity) to politics is still very much within the milieu of today‟s Nigeria‟s political landscape. In conclusion, the study, upon outlining certain essential lessons from the past, asserts strongly that if Nigeria must achieve the „unity in diversity‟ creed, ethnicity must be relegated to the background and the consciousness of absolute patriotism must be embrace by all and sundry, irrespective of religious, political or ethnic background as this will ensure that Nigerians avert a repetition of what transpired during the Nigeria‟s first republic.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Ubongabasi Ebenezer Israel, PatrickChukwudike Okpalaeke
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