"WE HAVE ARRIVED": Emergence of the Labour Party
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Introduction Residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, woke up on Friday February 27, 2004 to see red, black and green posters with the words "Labour Party (LP), WE HAVE ARRIVED" boldly inscribed on them. It was the eve of Saturday, February 28, 2004, the day that the inaugural convention of the now defunct Party for Social Democracy was billed to hold; the day that the LABOUR PARTY was born. The journey to February 28,2004 started some would say, a year and a half ago when the Party for Social Democracy was formed. Some others would say the journey started some six decades back, when the first Labour Party was formed. The pre-independence forays of Labour into electoral politics was very promising, but not long lasting. The dynamics of a "National Democratic Revolution" which the anti-colonial struggle was seen as, prevailed, seeing the dissolution of radical trade unionists into nationalist parties, particularly, the NCNC. Post-colonial Nigeria w...