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Political Transition, Ethnoregionalism, and the “Power Shift” Debate in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Jibrin Ibrahim
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The Nigerian military has been engaged in a program of transition to democratic rule since 1985. The country’s military rulers developed “transition politics” into a strategy of transitions without end, a ruse to prevent democratization. Hopefully, Nigeria is now at the crossroads. One of the most important issues posed in the transition has been the ethnoregional one: Would entrenched ethnoregional forces allow political power to shift from the North to the South? It is not a new question in Nigerian transition politics.

Two broad issues surface when ethnoregional domination emerges as a political issue in Nigeria: control of political power and its instruments, such as the armed forces and the judiciary; and control of economic power and resources.

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African Issues , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 1999 , pp. 12 - 16
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1999 

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Notes

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