The Convention People's Party of Nigeria and the Cameroons was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

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. Habib Raji Abdallah was the president of the party, and Osita C. Agwuna was the general secretary.Sklar, Richard L.
Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation
'. Trenton: Africa World, 2004. pp. 82-83 The party emerged from the People's Revolutionary Committee, a short-lived socialist formation that had been founded in mid-1951. The PRC had been dissolved in September 1951, as the organization passed through internal strife. The PRC was later replaced by the National Preparatory Committee, which in turn transformed itself into the Convention People's Party of Nigeria and the Cameroons. The party tried to establish ties with the

Convention People's Party The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a Socialism, socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Conven ...

in the

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, but were seemingly unsuccessful. The party disappeared soon thereafter.

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