The Midwest Democratic Front was a small
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 ideological or p ...
from Nigeria's Midwest region; encompassing present day
Edo and
Delta states. The party was one of the various small parties that forged alliances with the dominant parties in Nigeria's first republic, such as the
Action Group, the
Northern People's Congress
Northern People's Congress (NPC) is a political party in Nigeria. Formed in June 1949, the party held considerable influence in the Northern Region from the 1950s until the military coup of 1966. It was formerly a cultural organization known as J ...
,
NEPU and the
National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) later changed to the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens, was a Nigerian nationalist political party from 1944 to 1966, during the period leading up to independence and immediately ...
.
References
*Toyin Falola; The History of Nigeria, Greenwood Press, 1999.
Defunct political parties in Nigeria
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