By Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu
AWO or ZIK: Who won the 1951 Western Nigeria Election seeks to lay to permanent rest the controversy which had dogged the results of the elections into the Western Regional House of Assembly in 1951. The Action Group (AG), led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo won the elections and formed the government, which he headed. But the NCNC, led by Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, claimed victory without establishing its assertion. The claims and counter-claims have endured in political discourse nearly half a century after the event. With painstaking exposition of facts and figures, the author gives the lie to the NCNC's claim to electoral victory and challenges its surviving leaders to prove their assertion to the Nigerian public. A must read for the general reader and the honest political enquirer.