WAEC Government 2009 Theory question 111

Any six, each explained (the coup of 15 January 1966): the crisis of the 1964 federal election and its boycott; the 1965 Western Region election crisis and violence ('Operation wetie'); the 1962–63 and 1963–64 census controversies; the 1962 Action Group crisis and state of emergency in the West; widespread corruption among politicians; ethnic and regional rivalry, fear of Northern domination; the Tiv riots; personal ambitions of the young officers; breakdown of law and order; economic problems and unemployment; influence of coups elsewhere in Africa.

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