In 1963, the Eastern region of Nigeria went to the supreme court over the

  • A decision of the federal government to conduct a fresh census
  • B exclusion of Easterners resident in the North from the census
  • C the population figures of the national census
  • D exclusion of women in the national census.

The correct answer is C. the population figures of the national census

The result of the census had shown that the population of the North was larger than the addition of the figures of both the East and the West.

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