Three: These two main political tendencies in Nigeria’s post- Civil War national ruling class were not subjective or arbitrary creations. The first is that the National Republican Convention (NRC) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) – though state-formed – became national political formations of Nigeria’s ruling class. The closing point is that Nigeria’s ruling class, as a single national ruling class, lost an opportunity to produce two ideologically distinct, but national political formations for their dominance and rule. The former was created in 1998 as a conservative party of Nigeria’s ruling class. Thus, with the emergence of APC/PDP in 2013, Nigeria’s ruling class had a “re-birth” of NRC/SDP of 1990.

Source: The Guardian June 01, 2018 03:00 UTC