Under the Nigeria Constitution of 1979 representation in the lower House was based on
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Under the Nigeria Constitution of 1979, representation in the lower House, which is the House of Representatives, was based on the population of each state. This means that the number of representatives that a state had in the House of Representatives was determined by the population of the state. The higher the population of a state, the more representatives it had in the House of Representatives. This was aimed at ensuring that each state was well represented in the National Assembly based on the number of people living in the state.