Igbira tribal union

The Igbira Tribal Union was a political party and nationalist organization founded by educated officials from the Igbira Aboriginal Administration in British Northern Nigeria .

The party leader was George Ohikere . The union was one of the non- Hausa Fulani organizations associated with the dominant Northern Peoples Congress during the elections of the 1950s. She worked to restore the official status of the Ebira language, a nupoid language .

However, from 1958 to 1959 the political alliance with the Northern Peoples Congress was strained when both parties put up their own candidates for the election to the House of Representatives in Nigeria in 1959 .

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