AD seems to be a reincarnation of old-style Yoruba politics as started by Obafemi Awolowo's Action Group in the 1950s and briefly resuscitated with the United Party of Nigeria (1979-83)...
Some traditionalists from the south-west say Obasanjo was never ‘one of us' because he handed over power to a northern President Alhaji Shehu Shagari when his chief rival Obafemi Awolowo was still legally challenging the election result...
His friendship with the late Samuel Goomsu Ikoku in prison for attempting to overthrow the northern-dominated government was key to the formation of a broad- based national government that included rebels such as Obafemi Awolowo Aminu Kano and Joseph Tarka during the civil war (1967-70)...
Shehu Shagari's National Party of Nigeria was denigrated as 'northern' by its opponents but it was more national than the opposition parties led by the late Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe; the NPN' s problem was not regionalism but its corruption...
