Gang of Three
Dr. Comrade Edward Ikem Okeke, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, and Mazi SG Ikoku, were considered the intellectual voices, and front leaders, for three major Nigerian political parties during the Nigerian Second Republic. The fact that all three men were childhood friends, members of the Igbo clan, and graduates of Nigerian-English styled prep schools, fueled the belief during Nigeria's second republic, that the Nigerian political system was geared towards the rich.
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