One of the most contentious question of the 1958 Manchester House Nigerian Constitutional Conference in London was whether Nigeria was worth keeping at all. For almost 50 years, Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria had been ruled as two separate territories by the British overlords. Even the British colonial services of the two protectorates and their officials related to each other as if they belonged to two different establishments. When the regions were created after the Second World War, each of the three regions also tried to have its own identity. When the leaders met therefore, the temptation was high to go their different ways. After all, that was what happened to the British created East African Federation which eventually broke into Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika (now Tanzania).