Following the recent wave of defections from the opposition parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), fears of a one-party state have dominated the polity. The APC Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, however, sees nothing wrong in the defection and in a one-party state as three Kebbi senators, Adamu Aliero, Garba Maidoki, and Yahaya Abdullahi, of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) declared their intention to decamp from the PDP to the APC.
Speaking on Friday after leading a delegation of the three PDP senators from Kebbi state to meet with President Bola Tinubu, Ganduje, using China as an example, argued that the defection of opposition politicians to the ruling APC won’t turn Nigeria into a one-party state. He pointed out China as an example of a functional one-party system.
“China is one of the strongest countries in the world, and it’s a one-party system. We are not saying we are working for a one-party system, but if that is the wish of Nigerians, we cannot quarrel with that,” Ganduje said.
Ganduje further added that one-party state is by negotiation, and it is by other political parties seeing the effect of the positive governance of the ruling APC.
“If they decide to come to our party willingly, I think there is nothing wrong with that. You know they say too many cooks spoil the soup; too many political parties spoil governance, he said.
