The 2023 presidential candidate for Social Democratic Social gathering (SDP), Adewole Adebayo has described the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the primary sufferer of the alleged one-party system being championed by the present administration.
Adebayo whereas showing as a visitor on Channels Tv on Thursday mentioned what Nigeria is witnessing underneath the President Bola Tinubu-led authorities isn’t just a one-party system however a one-man rule.
In accordance with the SDP Chieftain, the president’s strategy and elegance of management wouldn’t solely harm the opposition but in addition members of the ruling occasion.
His phrases, “In my very own candid commentary and following the proof, Nigeria is just not going in direction of a one-party state.
“What we now have is that Nigeria is on the danger of one-man rule and if anyone is in APC, who thinks that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is making an attempt to assist APC to turn into the dominant occasion and have a one-party state; that’s not the agenda. The agenda is to have a one-man rule,” Adebayo mentioned.
He additional warned that politicians who’re members of the ruling occasion could also be compelled to get used to working underneath an authoritarian who solely decides what might be accomplished in authorities or inside their occasion.
“The primary victims of this one-man rule are even the APC itself, as a result of they’re inside there and are getting used to having zero inner democracy. They’re getting used to being dictated to by their chief who’s the president now.
“So, they don’t seem to be that a lot of a sturdy political occasion just like the ANC or different political events you discover in Africa, the place there are inner processes and the individuals within the occasion are stronger than those that are in authorities with the management of the occasion answerable for the efficiency of presidency and measurement and supervision of the federal government.
“So, APC is the primary sufferer. So, if they’re sitting fairly and considering it’s going to be a one-party state, it’s not gonna be a one-party state. It’s going to be a one-man rule and the APC wouldn’t be capable to perform,” Adebayo mentioned.