We’ve come a long way from the one-party state lament, by Rotimi Fasan.
We were inundated with stories, not proofs, that the opposition parties were not being allowed to thrive, even when what was […] The post We’ve come a long way from the one-party state lament, by Rotimi Fasan appeared first on Vanguard News .
It’s been just a matter of weeks since the political temperature of this country was constantly raised by claims that the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) was bent on making Nigeria a one-party state.
The scant regard for democratic ethos, which some of the politicians themselves like to describe as a lack of internal democracy, would not allow the political parties to thrive.
The ADC was a small party that existed only on the sidelines before the likes of Atiku Abubakar, Rauf Aregbesola and David Mark embarked on an aggressive takeover of its leadership. They saw the party simply as a means to achieve an immediate need. It was no more than what Nigerians now call a special purpose vehicle. So, a man like Alhaji Atiku, who has contested for the presidency on different political platforms for nearly forty years, saw nothing wrong in moving into the ADC in 2025 and taking over its leadership because nothing mattered more to him in those circumstances than his obsessive drive to be president.
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