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Nigerian Democracy

Nigerian democracy or democracy in Nigeria, as the case may be, refers to the practice of "self governance", that is, a situation whereby the power to choose who leads, rests in the arms of the peoples of a nation.

The journey into democracy in Nigeria started in the year 1979, with Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari as the first president elect. He became the Nigerian president in the Second Republic-- 1979, and his four-year tenure ended in 1983. Even though Shagari was re-elected for a second term administration, he was murdered three months into the administration in the course of a staged coup de'tat.

The second democratic president of Nigeria was Olusegun Obasanjo.

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