<P> In the Western Region, the Action Group had launched free primary education and other advances . However, its exclusion from national power, and what some considered a fair share of the national revenue for the Western region, led to internal tensions . Awolowo was arrested on what many considered trumped - up charges of treason, and plotting the overthrow of the federal government . Meanwhile, a pro-government party, the NNDP, was established in power in the Western Region by Chief Samuel Akintola, who left the AG to forge an alliance with the NPC at the center . These tensions and the manipulation of the elections of 1965 were among the factors that led to the 1966 military coups, and the subsequent Nigerian Civil War . </P> <P> The Unity Party of Nigeria in the Second Republic . </P> <P> It is often claimed that it was the Egbe Omo Oduduwa that was converted to the Action Group . This is an exaggeration of the connection between the Egbe and the Group; the Egbe continued to exist after the formation of the Action Group as a separate organisation, just as the Ibo State Union was at first separate from the largely Ibo NCNC . Secondly, it is not true that the NCNC "initially" won a majority in the election that brought the AG to power in the West . The situation at the end of the critical election in the West was similar to the one that brought the NPC to power at the national level on the eve of Nigerian independence. Three major parties participated in the election, including an Ibadan communal party.By the end of the election, the AG had won a plurality just like the NPC at the national level . To obtain a majority, the AG entered into negotiations with the Ibadan local party, some of whose members thereafter defected to the AG; the Ibadan party was a separate and independent political organisation, although it had been viewed by the NCNC as its ally . </P>

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