Arthur Prest

Chief Arthur Edward Prest (February 10, 1906 – September 26, 1976) was an Itsekiri politician of mixed heritage from the Warri division of southern Nigeria. He was an officer of the Nigerian police force prior to his nomination as a representative of the Warri district in the Western Regional House of Assembly.[1] In 1951, he declared his support for the Action Group and was later made regional minister at Ibadan, he was subsequently appointed federal minister for communications in 1952.

He left the Action Group in 1957.

In 1971, he was involved in a prominent court case. Then, he challenged the Itsekiri Communal Lands Trust which wanted to use the purported overlord rights of the Olu of Warri over lands in Warri. The overlord rights would have given the trust indirect ownership of all lands including overriding the rights of ownership of landlords. However, the communal lands trust lost the case.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Abner Cohen, Urban Ethnicity. Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0-415-32982-5
  2. ↑ Peter Palmer Ekeh, Warri City and British Colonial Rule in Western Niger Delta. Urhobo Historical Society. 2005. p 290. ISBN 978-064-924-7

KWJ Post, The Nigerian Federal Election of 1959: Politics & Administration in a Developing Political System. Oxford, 1963

Richard L Sklar, Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation, Princeton, NJ, 1963

Michael Vickers, Ethnicity & Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria: Movement for a Mid-West State, Oxford, 2000

Michael Vickers, A Nation Betrayed: Nigeria & the Minorities Commission of 1957, Trenton, NJ, 2010


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