The emergency powers conferred on the Federal Government under the independence constitution was first exercised in the

SamiatOgunyemi

3 years ago

It is the Western region and here is why;
History has it that Nigeria has exercised the emergency powers beginning from the early
sixties, precisely in 1962 when an internal party crisis between Chief Awolowo, the national leader of
the Action Group Party and Chief Adegbenro, Awolowo’s deputy, snowballed into a regional political
crisis which warranted the then Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Belewa to address the National
Parliament and subsequently declared a state of emergency in the then Western Region of Nigeria.
source-https://www.ajol.info/index.php/naujilj/article/download/168829/158295

justbabs2006

4 years ago

How?????

fembleez

12 years ago

Really???

Chikzycool

9 years ago

western