Nigerian Youth Movement

The Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) was a Nigerian political party from 1936 to 1951 .

development

In 1934 four Nigerians, Ernest Ikoli, Dr. JC Vaughan, Samuel Akinsanya and HO Davis founded the Lagos Youth Movement , which was formed in opposition to the education policy of the British colonial government. Two years later, it became a nationwide movement and, after being renamed the Nigerian Youth Movement, established itself as a nationalist party. With the accession of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo , the party received a great boost and in 1938 won the elections to the Lagos City Council, where it was the long-term supremacy of Herbert Macaulay's NNDPfinished. The party put pressure on the government to amend the constitution and opposed, among other things, the British cocoa price policy, but remained moderate and constructive in its approach. After the resignation of Kofo A. Abayomi as chairman in 1941 , power struggles broke out over the leadership, which sealed the end of the party. After 1944 , large parts of the movement were absorbed into newly founded parties such as Azikiwes NCNC and the party's sphere of influence was increasingly reduced to the western region of Nigeria. In 1951 , the party reorganized as an Action Group under Awolowo's leadership.