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President Bola Tinubu’s comment regarding a one-party state has been characterized as odd by Kola Ologbondiyan, the former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP.
Ologbondiyan answered questions during Friday’s Channels TV Morning Brief.
Recall that Tinubu refuted allegations that his administration intended to turn Nigeria into a one-party state during his speech to the National Assembly on Thursday.
However, the president declared that he is pleased with the chaos of the opposition parties and that they will not support them.
Tinubu said: “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.”
Ologbondiyan responded to the news by saying he never thought Tinubu would publicly acknowledge that he was responsible for the plan to establish a one-state party system in Nigeria.
“We never expected Mr president to come to the public arena and declare that he knows nothing about the plot to bring up the one party state,” Ologbondiyan said.
“We were not expecting the president to come and say I am behind the design to bring in a one party state no.
“I have not seen when he spoke on the need to reform the electoral process even in that remark Mr president said oh he have not seen any means in the INEC to say that INEC should not register any parties but those who have filed for registration have come out to say they have refused to register them.
“There was a case of a particular intent of a group of people who want for registration and they have completed all the processes and they have been told to come for their certificate, day in day out they have not been issued that certificate.
“It is also strange to me that Mr president will come up and say oh forever and ever I will never be involved in a one party plot but the design of the party, even members of his own cabinet have come out to ask even on channels TV to say where will they find a party to contest on, the president doesn’t need by himself to come out and say don’t register this party”.
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Jonathan Nwokpor
