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Kingship Institution in Post-Colonial Akokoland,1960–1999

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Ogunode S. A.

West Bohemian Historical Review

2019

vol. 9

issue 2

215-237

The attainment of independence in 1960 opened a new vista in the political history of Nigeria as the new nation, was after long years of tortuous journey in the hands of aggressive external control and coupled with series of destructive internal disturbances across villages, towns, cities throughout the polity, had the first opportunity at self-governance in the modern sense. Retrospectively, historians and other scholars have explicitly documented and argued the huge impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the legitimate trade, colonial rule and the forced union called amalgamation in 1914 on Nigeria. The attainment of political or flag independence was, however, not an automatic guarantee of solutions to the many damages that were done to our socio-economic and political institutions by the above development in our collective history. The paper, therefore, presents discussions on how the kingship institution in Akokoland in particular and Nigeria in general has fared since independence up to the period of return to civil rule in 1999. Using a gristmill of sources, the descriptive and analytical methods were used to present the ideas of the paper and the findings revealed that the kingship institution beyond Akokoland has continued to show resilience despite the various stages of mutations it has passed through.

The Military Foray into Nigerian Politics and Nation-Building: Historical Reflections on Murtala/Obasanjo Military Regime

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Ogunode S. A.

West Bohemian Historical Review

2021

vol. 11

issue 2

273-290

The Nigerian military, after each successful coup d’état in the second half of the twentieth century, advanced no reasons to justify their intervention in the nation’s politics beyond corruption and mismanagement of the economy. While these reasons were obvious, the political workings and institutional framings of the various military regimes that ruled Nigeria for over three decades did not reflect any significant change in the nation’s fortune. If politics of ethnicity and religious bigotry were adduced by the army as other reasons for their interventions, the military was, in the end, guilty of the same. This chapter is, therefore, concerned with retrospective historical reflections on the efforts of the Murtala/Obasanjo military regime at nation-building. The historical methodology of critical analysis, concise chronology, and objective interpretation were applied to the cross-examined data obtained from primary and secondary sources. In-depth interviews were conducted with purposively selected informants based on their knowledge of the subject matter and excerpts of Murtala speeches were analyzed while secondary data sourced from history and political science texts. Through these sources, the chapter argues that, though the regime made appreciable efforts at breathing new life into the troubled socio-economic and political waters of the nation, their inability to grapple with the complexities of the Nigerian polity proved beyond every reasonable doubt, their non-readiness to be the change and development agents they presented themselves to be. The chapter concludes that military intervention in Nigerian politics did more harm than good to the country as state institutions and structures that would have given a new direction to the nation were fundamentally damaged and this has been part of the bane to Nigeria’s inclusive development and nation-building since the 1960s.

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Kingship Institution in Post-Colonial Akokoland,1960–1999

The Military Foray into Nigerian Politics and Nation-Building: Historical Reflections on Murtala/Obasanjo Military Regime