| 词条 | Northern Elements Progressive Union |
| 释义 |
|country = Nigeria |name = Northern Elements Progressive Union |logo = Nepu sawaba.jpg |logo_size = 200px |president = Aminu Kano |colorcode = #00AB00 |chairperson = Malam Aminu Kano |foundation = {{Start date|1950}} |headquarters = Kano, Northern Nigeria |ideology = Socialist economics Social liberalism Democratic humanism |colours = Black, Green, Red |predecessor = Northern Elements Progressive Association Free North Spikin Movement |student_wing = Zahar Haqu |youth_wing = Rundunar Samarin Sawaba Askiyanist Movement }} The Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) was the first political party in Northern Nigeria. Founded in Kano on 8 August 1950, it was the offshoot of a pre-existing political association called the Northern Elements Progressive Association. It became the main opposition party in Northern Nigeria after the region was granted self-governance in the 1950s. In the First Republic it maintained a steady alliance with Zikist National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) against the Northern People's Congress (NPC)-dominated Federal Government. HistoryIn the late 1940s, the dawning of a constitutional conference (the Richards Constitution) spurred a crisis in the then Socio-Cultural Association of Northern Nigeria the NPC. The conservatives keen on protecting Northern traditions were reluctant to spearhead any transformation in the socio cultural dynamic of the region while the leftist led by Sa'adu Zungur championed a form of radical modernization they called Democratic Humanism.[1] This in turn ignited a wave discontent within leftist circles in the North, on August 8, 1950, a conference of leftist individuals representing the Spikin Movement and pro-Zungeru modernists at a building in Yoruba road, Kano issued the Sawaba Declaration; a proclamation of a political front calling for a socialist revolution in Northern Nigeria.[2] This was to become the enduring manifesto of NEPU. An English translation by Aminu Kano of the original Hausa document published by the party in 1953 called on the 'Talakawa' or populace to lunch a 'class struggle against the ruling class'. After a protracted struggle within the party between Abba Maikwaru and Malam Aminu Kano (then a school teacher). A shift of support by the Spikin Movement in the Lafiya Convention of 1953 resulted in a victory for Aminu Kano[1] from then on, Aminu Kano was to dominate the party infrastructure until 1964, when the same radicals that supported him turned against him and created a parallel structure called the Northern Elements Freedom Organisation. References1. ^1 {{cite book|last=Feinstien|first=Alan|title=African Revolutionary, the life and times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano|publisher=Spectrum Books}} {{Authority control}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Kano|first=Aminu|title=Sawaba, A Declaration of Principles|date=1953|publisher=Triumph Publishing Company}} 6 : Defunct political parties in Nigeria|Liberal parties in Nigeria|Socialist parties in Nigeria|Political parties established in 1950|1950 establishments in Nigeria|Politics of Northern Nigeria |
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