Borno youth movement

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The Borno Youth Movement ( BJM ) was a Nigerian political party founded on June 26, 1954.

The party was founded by young representatives of the Kanuri people and radical Kanuri heirs who found the administrative crus of the native authorities in the state of Borno to be unworthy and wanted to reform the local administrative authorities.

Ibrahim Imam's new membership in the party resulted in an upswing in the fate of the party in Borno . Ibrahim Imam had previously given up in his position as Secretary General of the Northern Peoples Congress and joined the NEPU. He combined the activities of the NEPU in Borno with those of the youth movement. However, the alliance broke in 1958 after the BJM forced a new alliance with the Action group .

literature

  • KWJ Post; The Nigerian Federal Election of 1959: Politics and Administration in a Developing Political System, Oxford University Press, 1963