Momoh, a former National Chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change CPC who is now a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC recalled how Nigeria missed the opportunity to have a well regulated political space, and lamented that the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are partly to blame for the increasing number of parties.
But the fact is, what people didn’t know is that as at the time Abacha dissolved those parties, they had taken over the ownership of their party because after the annulment of the June 12 elections, meetings were being called and SDP that produced Abiola was deciding to or not to attend meetings because they were already in charge of their party.
So, we had this situation where we had so many political parties, and as at the last count, we had 91 in the system, and it is not as if they are tired. More parties would spring up because we must look at what we have made of politics in Nigeria and you are a political association until you are registered as a political party.