Igala Union was a political union in

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during the nation's first republic. The union was originally made up of members from a powerful Igala group who were sympathetic to the

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. The union won four House of Representatives seats in the 1959 parliamentary elections

References

*K. W. J. Post; The Nigerian Federal Election of 1959: Politics and Administration in a Developing Political System, Oxford University Press, 1963 Defunct political parties in Nigeria {{Nigeria-party-stub