The party system that Nigeria operated in the aborted Third Republic is
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Correct Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Nigeria's aborted Third Republic, which was meant to begin in 1993 under the transition programme of General Ibrahim Babangida, was designed to operate a two-party system. The military government decreed that only two political parties would be allowed to contest elections: the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC). This was a deliberate attempt to prevent the kind of fragmented, regionally based multi-party politics that had characterised the First and Second Republics and which was believed to have contributed to their collapse. The two-party system was therefore a distinctive feature of the aborted Third Republic.
Nigeria's aborted Third Republic, which was meant to begin in 1993 under the transition programme of General Ibrahim Babangida, was designed to operate a two-party system. The military government decreed that only two political parties would be allowed to contest elections: the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC). This was a deliberate attempt to prevent the kind of fragmented, regionally based multi-party politics that had characterised the First and Second Republics and which was believed to have contributed to their collapse. The two-party system was therefore a distinctive feature of the aborted Third Republic.