The uprising of the Yoruba political groups in Nigerian politics can be dated as far back as 1949 when chief Obafemi Awolowo (late) of the then Western region formed the "Egbe Omo Oduduwa". This social-cultural group later gave birth to a full fledged political group called, the Action Group (AG)in 1951.The AG keenly contested an election in 1959 in preparation for Nigeria's independence (self-rule),and won nearly all the seats in the Western regional house of assembly. However, the AG metamorphosised to the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN)in 1979 and yet, clinched all the political seats in the Western regional states in the defunct 3rd republic. The phenomenon of tribal consciousness continued until recently when the Alliance for Democracy (AD)-acclaimed to be a Yoruba oriented and populated party - lost five of the six controlled states in the western geo-political zone in Nigeria to a rival non-Yoruba oriented party (so-called)-Peoples Democratic party(PDP) in May,2003.

The design employed in this study is the descriptive survey type and participants were drawn from the vast geo-political Western states of Nigeria. Also, the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used as the data analysis method. Thus, it was found that though tribal consciousness had once been a basis of the Yoruba tribe political alienation in past dispensations, but this trend has changed as researched in this paper taking a case of what happened in the last May, 2003 election. This implies that the Yoruba's in the Western Nigeria believed from time immemorial that dedicated leadership and good governance is their watchword other than tribal consciousness. Recommendations among which is political education was advanced at the end of the investigation as a basis of non-tribal integration of the Yorubas in future Nigerian politics.