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System Transformation in Nigeria

In this paper the processes of integration and disintegration within the Nigerian Fed eration up to the secession of Biafra are analysed. The 'modern' and the 'traditional' political systems and sub-systems are identified and the cultural setting is outlined. The focus is concentrated on the distribution of the enforcement powers, the utilitarian powers and the identive powers between the centres of the federal system and the regional sub-systems, as manifested by subsequent constitutions and by the social bases of the political parties. In such a context the integrative and disintegrative eff…