During the years preceding the establishment of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1978, a coalition of politicians from most of the parties of the First Republic worked together in an ...

Today’s installment examines Tocqueville’s account of how the Second Republic died. Preserve Me from My Friends Tocqueville took office as Louis-Napoléon’s foreign minister in June 1849.

Said he: “Our Second Republic even now is on trial.” * Including the commanders of the army, General Muhittin Onur, the air force. General Irfan Tansel, and the navy, ...

Our learning from the politics of the Second Republic is that the NPN got many to decamp but the decampees lost the support of their constituents and could not deliver.