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...campaign that included such innovations as helicopters, skywriting and more than one stuffed ballot box. His party won 142 out of 312 seats in the federal Parliament. Already Premier of the Northern Region, he wants no national office, with feudal condescension describes the new federal Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, as "my deputy." But Sir Abubakar, who is British-educated and will govern through what looks like a workable coalition with the non-Moslem eastern region, has gained major stature of his own, has gradually established his leadership of the new territory in fact as well as name...
...this is making no friends for Nkrumah. In big (pop. 35 million) Nigeria, Prime Minister Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa refers to Ghana's leader with scarcely veiled contempt. "I do not know why you attach any importance whatsoever to what Mr. Nkrumah says," he recently snapped to touring British reporters. In Togoland, popular Premier Sylvanus Olympio is even blunter. "The man must be crazy," he says. "Does he really think he can absorb us with his puny bunch of tin soldiers and those two minesweepers he calls a navy...
Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, K.B.E., 47, is Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous (35 million) nation, which will get its independence next Oct. 1. His name comes from the little village of Tafawa Balewa in the Northern Region, the huge Moslem half of the country, which dominates Nigerian politics by sheer weight of numbers (19 million). In a region ruled by the emir aristocracy, Abubakar's rise was especially noteworthy, for he was a talakawa, child of a poor commoner. Uncommonly bright, he closed the gap with education, luckily gaining entry to the area...
...Sardauna began a whirlwind electioneering bout, made 150 speeches in six weeks. The Sardauna did not want the federal prime ministership for himself, hoped for the honorary post of Governor General instead; his party's choice for independent Nigeria's top political job would be turbaned, scholarly Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who has already held the post of federal Prime Minister under the British crown for two years. In his speeches the Sardauna cast gibes at Zik ("an unbelieving Ibo"), but his major aim was to defeat his bitterest enemy, Awolowo, who called the Northern ruler a backward feudalist...
...other regional Prime Minister, the demagogic, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ["Zik"] Azikiwe of the Ibo tribe to the east, lives under a cloud as a result of a financial scandal in his administration. So rent by divisions (250 tribes speaking 400 languages), Nigeria has a compromise federal Prime Minister, Abubakar Balewa, a northerner. "To many of us," says Awolowo, "Britain is our second home. We have thrown no stones, fired no shot, and we have not shed a drop of British blood. We are attaining independence by peaceful, orderly and democratic methods...