Aminu Kano

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FEDECO's announcement was controversial, with Azikiwe, representing the four unsuccessful parties, rejecting "in its entirety and without any reservation the declaration of Alhaji Shehu Shagari as president-elect".<ref name=":32" />{{Rp|page=145}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=NIGERIA: UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES OPPOSE DECLARATION OF NEW PRESIDENT BY ELECTORAL COMMISSION. |url=https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/1053477 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Reuters Archive Licensing |language=en |type=video}}</ref>  Awolowo appealed to the [[Supreme Court of Nigeria|Supreme Court]], which dismissed the appeal.<ref name=":32" />{{Rp|page=148}} 

After the declaration of Shagari as president-elect, the alliance between the opposing parties, which now included PRP, stregnthened, leading the ruling NPN to search for its own alliance. They approached the other four parties to initiate talks, which the PRP was the first to accept, according to Shagari. However, it was Azikiwe's NPP that ended up reaching an 'accord' with the ruling party. The terms of the accord were finalized by representatives of the two parties on August 22, two days after Azikiwe's address rejecting Shagari's declaration. Meetings regarding the terms of the accord began on August 20, the same day as the speech. According to historian [[Oyeleye Oyediran]], one of the agreements made during the meetings concerned Aminu, outlining that "special arrangements were to be made for Alhaji Aminu Kano, leader of the PRP, were his party to join the alliance."<ref name=":32" />{{Rp|pages=156-158}}

Over a year into Shagari's administration, the NPN-NPP accord broke down despite the allocation of key leadership positions to NPP members by the ruling party. The accord formally ended on 6 July 1981, after a joint agreement from the two parties.<ref name=":34">{{Cite journal |last=Diamond |first=Larry |author-link=Larry Diamond |date=1982 |title=Cleavage, Conflict, and Anxiety in the Second Nigerian Republic |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/160342 |journal=The Journal of Modern African Studies |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=629–668 |issn=0022-278X}}</ref>