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4.5 Party Formation during Babangida’s Transition Programme 131 4.6 Political Party Formation under General Sanni Abacha 135 4.7 Political Party Formation under General Abdulsalami Abubakar 136 4.8 INEC Guidelines of Party Formation and Registration 142 4.9 Politics of Political Opposition in Nigeria’s Previous Republics 150 CHAPTER FIVE THE FORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE ALL NIGERIA PEOPLE’S PARTY (ANPP) 5.1 Introduction 159 5.2 The Formation of the All People Party 159 5.3 The Pulling Out of Afenifere 162 5.4 The APP and December 1998 Local Council Polls 170 5.5.0 The ANPP’s Guideline for Governorship Primaries of 1998 172 5.5.1 The APP and December 1998 Governorship Primaries 175 5.6 The APP Presidential Primaries 176 5.7 The Transformation of the APP to ANPP 178 5.8.0 Buhari’s Membership of the ANPP 180 CHAPTER SIX AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LEADERSHIP CRISES IN THE ANPP AND ITS DECLINE AS AN OPPOSTION PARTY IN NIGERIA: 1999 TO 2009 6.0 Introduction 183 6.1.0 The Struggle for the Control the ANPP 1999 2009 183 6.1.1 Factionalization of the National Executive of the ANPP in 2004 194 6.1.2 The Leadership of the ANPP between 2006 and 2009 201 xii
6.2 Internal Democracy in the ANPP 204 6.3 Internal Grouping within the ANPP (Factionalism) 215 6.3.1 The Buhari Organisation Faction 221 6.3.2 Governors’ Forum 224 6.3.3 Attempts at Merging the Factions 225 6.4 Politics of Co-optation (Government of National Unity) 230 6.5 Organizational Strength and Structure 244 6.6 Party Finance 251 6.7 Party Discipline 260 6.8 Party Programmes and Ideology 267 6.8.1 The ANPP’s Performance at the National Assembly 276 6.8.2 The ANPP and Civil Society Organizations 279 6.9 Institutional Constraints 282 CHAPTER SEVEN SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 7.1 Summary 290 7.2 Conclusion 295 References 301 Appendices: (1)List of People interviewed 313 (2)Interview guide Questions 314 (3) Content Analyses Frequencies 317 (4)List of Political Associations during Babangida’s first Phase of Transition 319 xiii
Page 1 and 2: LEADERSHIP CRISES AND DECLINE OF OP
Page 3 and 4: CERTIFICATION This dissertation tit
Page 5 and 6: DEDICATION With gratitude to God, I
Page 7 and 8: INEC Independent National Electoral
Page 9 and 10: TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration ii Ce
Page 11: 3.3.2 Selected Key Informants 79 3.
Page 15 and 16: LIST OF TABLES Table 5.1 Pioneering
Page 17 and 18: Figure 6.6.3 Party Finance in Weekl
Page 19 and 20: 1.1 Background to the Study CHAPTER
Page 21 and 22: It has been acknowledged by democra
Page 23 and 24: Senators (27) and ninety-seven (97)
Page 25 and 26: Mozaffar et al. 2003, Randall and S
Page 27 and 28: Chapter Three deals with the resear
Page 29 and 30: control over leaders” (Dahl 1970)
Page 31 and 32: opinions of scholars like Lipset, D
Page 33 and 34: and extent of government. In other
Page 35 and 36: Moreover, underlying these debates
Page 37 and 38: While early democratic theory typic
Page 39 and 40: celebrated formulation of the ‘ir
Page 41 and 42: outside the central party bureau:
Page 43 and 44: In the early 1940s, Schattschneider
Page 45 and 46: game theoretical studies of governm
Page 47 and 48: government formations are commonly
Page 49 and 50: mechanism for ensuring ‘vertical
Page 51 and 52: While they state that party leaders
Page 53 and 54: inclusiveness criteria of “who ca
Page 55 and 56: (Her) Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.
Page 57 and 58: organized opposition that liberals
Page 59 and 60: participant in that it helps the go
Page 61 and 62: president in power and the oppositi
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Matters stand out as some of the fe
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problem ranging from political prob
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eligion, region and ethnicity. Wher
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seats following the 2006 elections,
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where reinstituted. In Zambia, for
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increase in the number of independe
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national unity and economic develop
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patronage at the time that it mobil
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the constraint of achieving a minim
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varied among state governments, and
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or resuscitated ethno-regional / re
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powers of the court are stated unde
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interactions among group which purs
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asic source of social evolution. Ma
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tendency for political organization
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A second implication/relevance of t
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group in their own interest.Therefo
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(i) It involves a small sample size
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image of the party through its ideo
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Leadership newspapers. However, the
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asis between 2002 and 2003, particu
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is the ANPP as an opposition party
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classified. The categories for this
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3.5.0 Data Transformation Technique
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3.7.1 Inaccessibility of the ANPP O
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CHAPTER FOUR HISTORY, TRENDS OF POL
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2. to encourage the spontaneous evo
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when the … (educated) African has
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A geographical extension of the met
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Like its predecessors, there was ve
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for opinion dissent,public institut
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overgrown through neglected; and on
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3. acting as intermediary in politi
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can” style of politics. The emine
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has been strengthened by successive
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often exhibit the intolerance and i
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forming its democratic transition p
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The military has introduced so many
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4.3 A Brief Historical Formation of
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leader of the party started to show
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emergency meeting in Zaria in 1951,
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In October 1977, a year after the p
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and (4) full employment. The PRP ex
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The Political Bureau’s wide-rangi
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impose two political parties: Natio
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wise progression” beginning from
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Subsequently All Nigeria Congress (
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New Era Alliance (NERA) was premise
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Democratic Alliance (DA) was made u
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2. (1) There shall be multiple poli
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policies and strategies for tacklin
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(c) no political party shall receiv
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14. Subject to paragraphs 12 and 13
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The general point concerning the ef
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so important to retain political po
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Assembly. The other a de-facto alig
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the presidential candidate. The eff
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CHAPTER FIVE THE FORMATION AND TRAN
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On the whole, the following were th
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down well with Ige and Adesanya, wh
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as such members of the “five fing
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G J OFFICE OF THE NAT SOC. SEC 30 M
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c) Chief Levy Braide 14 Rivers Stat
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In Kano, APP had to contend with th
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5. 0 Conduct for primaries 5.1 Cong
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Osun: Chief Oladosu Oshimowo/Alhaji
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This arrangement did not go down we
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APP/UNPP fusion is irreversible bec
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Gen. Buhari made the above statemen
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CHAPTER SIX AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LE
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contributions to a functioning demo
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in 1999 which was ill thought and u
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countless campaign slogans, most ab
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The governors have wielded and cont
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Governors of Kebbi, Zamfara and him
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the hierarchy and the various organ
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As events moved in quick succession
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However, that did not stop Useni’
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and strong speculation that Etiebet
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All measures to provide a level pla
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100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20
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party candidates for purposes of co
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In a way, the governors preferred S
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When the researcher put the questio
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Muhammed maintained that: In punish
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party virtually appropriated the sp
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100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20
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united party since the burden is on
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6.3.1 The Buhari Organisation (TBO)
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people and enjoyed more confidence
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The activities of the governors pol
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The same thing happened in 2007, th
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a former House of Representatives m
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Hoewver, about 79% of all the categ
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The ruling party has used the strat
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Nigeria. However, it has never befo
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No member of the party shall hold a
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(b) Dissolution of INEC and prosecu
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phrase ‘Government of National Un
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No doubt, the participation of the
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100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20
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Party Organizational Structure Deci
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The South-South geo-political zone
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to woo voters. A clear example was
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dues, local fund raising by party a
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conduct an annual examination and a
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The above scenario made it more dif
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that huge amount of money to the PD
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100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20
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There is a consensus that there is
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Governor Ibrahim Shekarau: 2009). T
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generally not respected, it lacks t
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Policy and programme development de
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Part of the low salience of ideolog
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This lack ideological distinction n
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now, the situation is the same. You
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Bachelor’s Degree, 20.6% have Mas
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At the begining of the fifth sessio
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ANPP has never been part of these s
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100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20
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Governors. Because of this developm
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maneuvering and masterminded the wh
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election rigging in its various for
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Olajumoke were credible enough to b
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one led by Don Etiebet and the othe
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party has no evidence and the neces
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political patronage in political of
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Because the party is most times dor
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References Alavi, H. (1979) “The
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Africa.Boulder: Westview. Cho, W. (
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Ikoku, S.G. 1985. Nigeria’s Fourt
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Luckham, R. (1995), “Dilemmas of
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Oyugi, W., (2003) The Politics of T
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Stephan, A (1993) “On the Tasks o
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Appendix 1 List of the people inter
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Appendix ii b Interview Questions f
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Leaders hip Crises Appendix 3 Conte
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Appendix 4 List of Political Associ
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educational and other objectives as
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Maintenance of International peace,
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c. The composition of the Executive
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xxv. Ministers and Special Advisers
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viii. State financial secretary ix.
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v. The vacancy shall be fill by the
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NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The na
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iii. Adopt party stand on controver
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iii. Advice the party on mass media
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1. The meeting shall discharge the
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20.4 RULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF MEETI
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22.3 AUDIT i. Executive Committee t
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v. The Executive Committee concerne
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iv. The National Executive Committe
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iii. Governor and Deputy Governor i
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31.2 ELECTION OF OFFICERS i. Electi
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Appendix 6 MANIFESTO OF THE ANPP Th
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Women’s Right An A.N.P.P administ
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products in other sectors. To this
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(xvii) Making sincere effort to pre
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Offer incentives to would-be indust
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d. Confronting the erosion menance
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Appendix 7 THE BUHARI ORGANIZATION
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Building of Human Capital through r
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(f) Enhanced welfare for n-servicem
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(a) To turn around Nigeria’s econ
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disturbing decline into a state of
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sector in the past three years, the
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8.2 Strategies (a) Resuscitation an
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10.1 Objectives (a) To rapidly impr
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(c) Pursue a high priority national
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YOUTHS DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT
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17.1 Objectives (a) Support and enc
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(d) Effective management and audit
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21.1 Objectives (a) Support and emp
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(c) Involvement in public enlighten
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