Igala Union was a political union in
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
during the nation's first republic. The union was originally made up of members from a powerful
Igala
Igala or IGALA may refer to:
* IGALA, the International Gender and Language Association, an interdisciplinary academic organization
* Igala Kingdom, a pre-colonial West African state
* Igala language, a Volta–Niger language
* Igala people
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group who were sympathetic to the
Northern People's Congress
The Northern People's Congress (NPC) is a political party in Nigeria. Formed in June 1943, the party held considerable influence in the Northern Region from the 1950s until the military coup of 1966. It was formerly a cultural organization know ...
. The union won four House of Representatives seats in the 1959 parliamentary elections
References
*K. W. J. Post; The Nigerian Federal Election of 1959: Politics and Administration in a Developing Political System, Oxford University Press, 1963
Defunct political parties in Nigeria
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Political parties of minorities in Nigeria