The Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has assured that the country will not become a one-party state, contrary to a rising concern by opposition party that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is turning the country into a one-party state.
Penpushing reports that Tinubu gave the assurance while addressing a joint session of the National Assembly in commemoration of the Democracy Day, explaining that doing that would be repeating the mistake of political overreach previously attempted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
‘The failed effort to create a one-party state (by the PDP) placed progressive political forces on a trajectory to form the APC. It put me on the trajectory which has brought me before you today. I dare not do such a favour to any political adversary by repeating the same mistake of political overreach’, he said
Penpushing further reports that Tinubu described the concerns by opposition political parties as a terrible rumour, and equally denied ever asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to frustrate the registration of political parties.
“At no time in the past, nor any instance in the present, and at no future juncture shall I view the notion of a one-party state as good for Nigeria. To those who ring the alarm that the APC is intent on a one-party state, I offer you a most personal promise. While your alarm may be as a result of your panic, it rings in error’, he stated
“I have never attempted to alter any political party registration with INEC. Equally, my friends, we cannot blame anybody seeking to bail out of a sinking ship even without a life jacket’, Tinubu added
“In 2003, when the then-governing party tried to sweep the nation clean of political opposition through plot and manipulation, I was the last of the progressive governors standing in my region. In all their numbers and false grandeur, they boasted of ruling, not governing, Nigeria for the next half century or more. Where are they now?”, he said
“Yet, I stood alone. My allies had been induced into defeat. My adversaries held all the cards that a mortal man could carry. Even with all of that, they could not control our national destiny because fate is written from above. A greater power did not want Nigeria to become a one-party state back then. Nigeria will not become such a state now.”
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