Manifesto And Constitution

GENERAL PROGRAMME
AND
CONSTITUTION
OF THE
PEOPLES REDEMPTION PARTY

PROFILE OF THE PEOPLES REDEMPTION PARTY (PRP)

Origin of the Peoples Redemption Party

The origin of the Peoples Redemption Party goes directly back to the establishment of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) on 26th August, 1944. The NCNC was the first national political party in Nigeria. It was the first political party to consciously shift party politics and party political agitation out of Lagos and Calabar. It was also the first party to attempt to mobilize ordinary people in all parts of Nigeria, and to organize and channel their grievances against British colonial domination. The NCNC’s appointment of Mallam Sa’ad Zungur in 1948, as its Federal Secretary, to succeed Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and its conscious effort to form a nationally representative executive council, were revolutionary in the context of Nigerian politics.
National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) 26th August, 1944 First nation-wide Strike

The party quickly consolidated itself as a genuine national political party, and above all challenged the colonial strategy of divide and rule, which insisted on the so-called irreconcilable differences between northerners and southerners in Nigerian politics….