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Osita Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), claimed on Sunday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is to blame for overheating Nigerian politics and endangering the nation.

Okechukwu claimed that the PDP was to blame for the political unrest, the crisis in Rivers State, and the risky attempt to transition into a one-party state.

The former Voice of Nigeria, VON, Director General, said in a statement he signed that it was time for the PDP to get off its high horse and offer Nigerians a heartfelt apology for the unexpected consequences of their impunity.

“We cannot easily forget how the PDP leadership in the 2023 presidential primary sowed the seeds of discord and stoked the raging inferno by violently violating the rotation convention of north to south and vice versa,” Okechukwu said, warning us against retrograde amnesia.

Wike Masquerade would not have been possible if the PDP had taken into account our fledging democracy or even complied with Section 7 of their constitution is the day we tame the culture of impunity and we progress.

In response to a question on whether the APC is using the division within the PDP to push Nigerians into a one-party state, Okechukwu stated that the forces behind one-party states are those who waved away the rotation convention, which serves as the binding thread between the north and south.

He said: “Otherwise Nigeria operates multiparty system by law, it is only the fire stoked by PDP, that is raging. They erroneously misunderstood the sophisticated northern electorates, assumed they were in dormitory to be hauled to polling stations on election day to vote for northern candidate.

“These are illiberal elements fast eroding our multiparty system. They’re at it again to stop rotation convention with an awkward presidency arithmetic of 17 years south and 11 years north by 2027, as if Nigeria got independence in 1999.

“Finally Okechukwu submitted that if PDP had adhered to rule of law and subsisting rotation convention, maybe Atiku, Obi and Kwankwaso votes could have been theirs in 2023 presidential election.”

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