All of them were active in the politics of Nigeria before independence. Their average age in August 1979 was just under 62 years. The contest was in many ways a re-litigation of positions that all five had respectively canvassed over a period going back more than two decades previously.
Remembering Olatunji Akinwande Braithwaite (1933-2016), By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
