Nigerian Military Dictatorship (2020 Crisis)

The Nigerian Military Dictatorship was an authoritarian military government that ruled Nigeria for almost 17 years, from June 14, 2024 to February 12, 2041. It began with a military coup that deposed President Osolenji Solweto of the People's Action, elected in 2023, and established the Supreme Council of the Revolution. A few days later, on July 2, General Adja Obwango was indirectly elected by the National Assembly the new president of Nigeria, and adopted liberal policies that corrected the high inflation and the economic crisis inherited from the government of Solweto.

In 2026 a new constitution was adopted, which reduced the number of states and renamed the National Assembly to National Congress. From 2027, the regime became increasingly authoritarian, while the Nigerian Economic Miracle occurred, first thanks to the oil price boom, and then thanks to industrialization.

The Ethiopian Crisis in 2031, and the sharp fall in the price of oil, slowed the growth rate, and reduced the supply of low-interest external credit. The government then adopts an even more interventionist policy, killing industrialization by import substitution, ending dependence on oil expropriation, and high external indebtedness at high interest rates, while the balance of payments remained deficient.

The regime then weakened after the African debt crisis in 2037, when Ethiopia declared a moratorium, leading other nations, such as Nigeria, to suffer from the lack of external credit supply and, with the economic crisis.

The government then declared the foreign debt moratorium at 39, while the government continues to open policy.

In 2041, the National Congress indirectly elected Omoyele Sowore as the first civilian president in 17 years. It was a nationalist, developmentalist, statist and anti-communist dictatorship that built a bureaucratic-authoritarian state based on the Brazilian military dictatorship. It was a unique military dictatorship in Africa, maintaining a legislative body elected in regular controlled elections.