1979 GENERAL ELECTIONS CRISIS: The election into different positions in government was generally calm. The crisis of 1979 election triggered off following the declaration of Alhaji Shehu Shari as the president-elect, which Chief Obafemi Awolowo strongly challenged in court over the working of the “two-third” of states as stipulated in the electoral act of that year.
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