Federal Republic of Nigeria

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Across
  1. 1. capital city (5)
  2. 3. norm of alternating between northern and southern presidential candidates (6)
  3. 5. lower house (5-2-15)
  4. 7. most prominent form of governance in Nigeria (a form of co-optation) (13)
  5. 9. head of state and government (9)
  6. 10. a violent group of Islamic insugents against westernization (4-5)
  7. 13. largest city (5)
  8. 15. ethnic group concentrated in the north, mostly Mustlin, and politically centralized (5-6)
  9. 16. secessionist state that seceeded from nigeria in 1967 resulting in the nigerian civil war (6)
  10. 17. acronym of coalition party that won the presidential election in 2015 (3)
  11. 18. division of power (7)
  12. 21. legislature (8-8)
  13. 22. staging a coup against a government that was already replaced by a coup (11)
Down
  1. 2. current president (6)
  2. 4. ethnic group concentrated in the Southeast, relatively decentralized (4)
  3. 6. a pattern in developing nations of corruption surrounding oil reserves and other wealth (8-5)
  4. 7. acronym of party that won the presidency for the first 3 elections of the 4th republic (3)
  5. 8. last leader before the 4th republic (4-6)
  6. 11. federal _____ principle a quota system in the Nigerian constitution that required the president to appoint ministers from each of the states of the Nigerian Republic (9)
  7. 12. based on islamic values, courts use it to rule in northern states (6-3)
  8. 14. the region in Nigeria that’s rich in oil reserves (5-5)
  9. 19. upper house (6)
  10. 20. ethnic group concentrated in the west, religously diverse, and politically decentralized (6)