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Embarrassing as it was, the election breakdown looked far more serious to Western eyes than it did to the Congolese or the African observers. "We have had such difficulties in my country too," said a tactful Nigerian representative, and Zambia's Ambassador Timothy Kankassa allowed that it could have happened anywhere. Even Tshombe seemed unperturbed, and for good reason: after a two-week offensive in the northeast, his mercenary-led army was doing better than ever in the struggle against the Communist-backed rebels...
...neighbors accuse him of "interference in their internal affairs," a third recently captured a band of Nkrumah-trained guerrillas; and for the past five years little Togo has had all it could do to keep Nkrumah from annexing it. After a Nkrumah-sponsored student demonstration outside the Nigerian High Commission in Accra this month, the Prime Minister of Africa's most populous nation resolutely joined the chorus of critics...
Tragic Role. But last week as the nation held its first postindependence general election, there was precious little brotherhood, and Nigeria's model democracy lay in a shambles of violence, poll rigging, boycotting and threats. Any Nigerian who still felt like hailing his own dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference...
...rich Eastern Region, home of the clever Ibo tribesmen, and the relatively urbane Mid-Western and Western regions, where sophisticated Yoruba leaders like to say, "We are the English of Nigeria, clever and diplomatic, no final commitments and always a foot in each camp." And despite its democratic facade, Nigerian politics is little more than a raw power struggle between two shifting alliances of regional and tribal parties: the ruling National Nigerian Alliance (N.N.A.), whose power base lies among the proud, haughty Hausa and Fulani peoples of the north, and the opposition United Progressive Grand Alliance (U.P.G.A.), which is strongest...
...N.N.A. began to tot up its victory, Okpara's headquarters issued a chilling warning. Calling the election "a farce," the U.P.G.A. announced that unless "a free and fair election" were immediately forthcoming, the east-west alliance would reluctantly consider a proposal "to break up the Nigerian Federation peacefully" and allow the East to secede...