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Former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has warned against allowing the country to drift into a one party state.

Tinubu, who spoke in an interview with newsmen yesterday, said the actions of the National Assembly, peopled by mainly Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members, was drifting Nigeria towards an authoritarian state.

According to him, it is not the duty of the National Assembly to set out dates and structure of elections for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as an autonomous agency.

Tinubu said: You look at the National Assembly making laws in a customized and personalised form and not the constitutional way.

Taking away the independence of INEC, when you say this is an independent institution, you are taking their independent away by ordering election, organizing the order of elections, making laws, legislating for the order of election and so on. There are all sorts of charade by the majority party in power.

You see the problem of law making outside the constitution again is tailor-made. The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria says the political parties must have their own constitution and make the laws and operate on internal democracy and that those officials must be democratically elected and now, a legislative body is now making laws for the party that is not their own. You could see a National Assembly that is an imperial court

Tinubu said Action Congress would not hesitate to drag the National Assembly to court for its infractions on the rights of opposition parties in the country. He contended that the ruling party was concentrating on zoning rather than addressing national problems confronting the people.

In the past 50 years of our independence, we are still talking about our potential when we should be actualising our potentials.

Collation is not about the merger of which party or not but you have to look at the laws made by the National Assembly, he said. On calls for President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011election, Tinubu said that the issue was PDP's problem.

Tinubu welcomes endorsements, Says "Nothing Wrong With One-Party System."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D4vpY7C0PM?si=3fhWtLbhWJA13kiS

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Thursday welcomed the multiple endorsements he received in respect of the 2027 general elections.The president has been endorsed for a second term by governors, lawmakers, captains of industry and political heavyweights across political divides.

Speaking at the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Summit in Abuja, the president welcomed the endorsements. He expressed optimism about receiving more endorsements ahead of the forthcoming general elections.
The president also welcomed the new members of the APC who defected from other parties. “Welcome to the progressives, sweep them clean,” he said.

He said there’s nothing wrong with a one-party system in a constitutional democracy. “There’s nothing wrong with a one-party system,” the president while emphasising the strength and unity he envisions for the APC as Nigeria’s leading political force.

"Nothing Wrong With One-Party State." – Ganduje

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, says there is nothing wrong with having a one-party system in Nigeria.

Ganduje stated this on Friday after leading a delegation of three senators from Kebbi state to meet with President Bola Tinubu.

The three senators – Adamu Aliero, Yahaya Abdullahi and Garba Maidoki, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were said to have declared their intention to join the APC.

Ganduje, while reacting to whether the wave of defection of opposition politicians to the ruling APC would not slide Nigeria into a one-party state, cited China as an example of a working one-party state.

“We came here so that Mr President can bless this resolution, and Mr President has graciously blessed this resolution. On Tuesday, I urge you to go and see what will happen in the chambers.

“If a one-party state is a wish and blessing to Nigeria… a one-party state is not by force. One party’s state is by negotiation, and it is by other political parties seeing the effect of the positive governance of our party.

“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.

“China is one of the strongest countries in the world, and it’s a one-party system,” he said.

Initially:
APC presidential primary: Tinubu denies endorsing Muslim-Muslim ticket

A leading All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, has denied endorsing a Muslim-Muslim ticket. Tinubu said the text message being circulated at the Eagles Square, the venue of APC Special Convention, was false.

He noted that the text messages were the handiwork of shameless, desperate, and misguided individuals.Tinubu’s denial was contained in a statement signed by his Media Office, and posted on his verified Twitter handle.

The message reads: “We have been informed of text messages aimed at APC delegates purportedly from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, other candidates and party officials making various false claims about Asiwaju and the primary process.

“We have been informed of a text message going around APC delegates at Eagles Square in Abuja purportedly from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu claiming that with his imminent victory at the APC presidential primary and emergence as the party’s presidential candidate, the APC leader has now decided on a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

This is nothing but a lie, it has no basis whatsoever.We enjoin the distinguished delegates to ignore this completely. The fake text message is a ploy by some undemocratic elements to confuse and hoodwink delegates sensing that Asiwaju Tinubu is comfortably coasting home to victory.

“There is no truth whatsoever in any of these messages. They are lies perpetrated by shameless, desperate and misguided individuals and should be ignored as such.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2022/06/08/apc-presidential-primary-tinubu-denies-endorsing-muslim-muslim-ticket/%3famp=1

And then: "Muslim-Muslim Ticket: I Have Made The Hard Choice - Tinubu"

Following criticisms that greeted his choice of former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wednesday, said he had made the hard choice.

In a statement on his verified Twitter handle, the former governor of Lagos State averred that he made the hard choice because he believed it was the best choice.

Clearing himself in a statement via Twitter handle, Jagaban opined: “This chapter in our nation’s history demands a bold yet pragmatic approach.“In selecting Senator Shettima I have committed myself to this path. I have made the hard choice because I believe it is the best choice.

“Together, we shall build this party and this nation. This is where politics must end and leadership must begin.

“True leadership is not grounded in religious pandering, populism or sentiment. To forge ahead as a nation towards development and prosperity, we must, instead, break the shackles of old thinking.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/muslim-muslim-ticket-i-ve-made-the-hard-choice-tinubu/amp/

SoftSport:
Tinubu's has flexibility and wisdom' in his views on one-party states, going from warning against it to saying there's nothing wrong with it just to make Nigeria better....

SoftSport:
Tinubu's has flexibility and wisdom' in his views on one-party states, going from warning against it to saying there's nothing wrong with it just to make Nigeria better, but nonetheless, long live Mr. President, may God continue to grant you wisdom and guidance for the progress of our great nation

Tochi360:
Na my turn,na my turn you don carry your own destroy the Country...

Racoon:
Strangely he has terrible asslickers who are supporting all these calamitous decisions he takes while destroying the nation. So sad!

Tochi360:
Strangely you hardly ever meet them in real life. How many people have you met in real life that are pro APC? The ones you meet in majority are thugs and lazy never dowells.

infohenry:
When they speak you will accuse them of trying to distabilize the government and start calling DSS and police to arrest them.

aswani:
There is a lot wrong with a one party state.

In fact as PDP has shown, there is a lot wrong when there is a weak opposition.

anonimi:
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.

He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.

The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht

slivertongue:
He is a two faced character. A pretender that think he can decieve the people all the time