President and Power in Nigeria

First published in 1982. This is the biography of Alhaji Shehu Shagari of Nigeria, Africa''s most populous state and the world''s third biggest democracy. He was elected in 1979, against four opponents, in the election which signified the peaceful end of thirteen and a half years of military rule. Alhaji Shehu was the first boy from Shagari, founded in what is now Sokoto State by his ancestors 170...