Constitutional Conferences And Political Issues From Military To Constitutional Democracy: Nigerian Experience

Abstract

This paper focuses on nearly all of the African countries that were formerly under imperial rule achieved independent statehood under one system of constitutional democracy or the other. The Westminster export model. The American structure, the French system, with modifications as deemed appropriate, were the systems applied t independence in the constitutions of former British and French protectorates. Other systems of constitutional democracy as inspired by the Constitutions of Italy and Belgium were adopted by their former colonies. The Westminster model, in the modified form, was the system adopted in the Constitution of Nigeria and sixteen other) countries of former British African n at independence. Nigeria attained independent statehood under the 1960 Independence Constitution of Nigeria. The Westminster export styled Constitution, marked the beginning of Nigeria’s First Republic.