<P> After the banning of 13 prospective parties by the administration of Ibrahim Babangida in 1989 . Some of the associations decided to re-align . The People 's Front of Nigeria , People 's Solidarity Party and the Nigerian Labor Party were the three main inchoate groups that emerged to form the core constituency of the new SDP . The leadership of the party was mostly dominated by Northern Nigerians , with Babagana Kingibe elected party chairman in 1990 over his rival Mohammed Arzika . On the other hand , the electoral strength of the party lain in the Yoruba states and Imo and Anambra states . The party won 57 % of the Senate seats in the 1992 National Assembly election , and won 53 % of the seats of the House of Representatives in the same election . The party was largely financed by the Federal Government and a few individuals , such as Shehu Musa Yar'Adua , Francis Nzeribe and M.K.O. Abiola . The first presidential primary election conducted by the party , Yar'adua collated about 480,000 votes dominating his primary opponent , Olu Falae in the first round . However , those elections were cancelled by Babangida . In second primary election under an adopted system called Option A4 , another financier , Abiola ( a former member of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons and once a state chairman of the National Party of Nigeria ) won the primary election on March 1993 , after the first election was canceled . Abiola 's contested the national election which was later annulled , a seemingly coherent legacy of Nigeria 's swivelling and revolving door like historical political landscape . </P>
<P> After the banning of 13 prospective parties by the administration of Ibrahim Babangida in 1989 . Some of the associations decided to re-align . The People 's Front of Nigeria , People 's Solidarity Party and the Nigerian Labor Party were the three main inchoate groups that emerged to form the core constituency of the new SDP . The leadership of the party was mostly dominated by Northern Nigerians , with Babagana Kingibe elected party chairman in 1990 over his rival Mohammed Arzika . On the other hand , the electoral strength of the party lain in the Yoruba states and Imo and Anambra states . The party won 57 % of the Senate seats in the 1992 National Assembly election , and won 53 % of the seats of the House of Representatives in the same election . The party was largely financed by the Federal Government and a few individuals , such as Shehu Musa Yar'Adua , Francis Nzeribe and M.K.O. Abiola . The first presidential primary election conducted by the party , Yar'adua collated about 480,000 votes dominating his primary opponent , Olu Falae in the first round . However , those elections were cancelled by Babangida . In second primary election under an adopted system called Option A4 , another financier , Abiola ( a former member of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons and once a state chairman of the National Party of Nigeria ) won the primary election on March 1993 , after the first election was canceled . Abiola 's contested the national election which was later annulled , a seemingly coherent legacy of Nigeria 's swivelling and revolving door like historical political landscape . </P>
who was the first national chairman of the proscribed social democratic party
who was the first national chairman of the proscribed social democratic party
Babagana Kingibe
Babagana Kingibe