Party Defection: Who Says One-Party System is Not Good? Tinubu Asks, Says, I’m Expecting More to Come
By: Israel Adeleke
OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News reports that amid the ongoing political defection, the president of federal republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has asserted that there is nothing wrong with a one-party system, adding that the public should not blame people bailing out of a sinking ship when they have no life jackets.
OTN News further reports that the president who said this while speaking at the All Progressives Congress (APC) summit held on Thursday, at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, charged the party to consolidate its political control by clearing the opposition fold.
According to him, “I just need to tell those who say a one-party system is no good…. You don’t blame people bailing out of a sinking ship when they have no life jackets. I’m glad for what we have, and I’m expecting more to come. That is the game. Welcome to progress; sweep them clean,”
OTN News recalls that the remarks come on the heels of a growing trend of high-profile defections from the opposition, including the recent defection of Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori and his entire cabinet to the APC.
OTN News observes that critics have accused the APC of deliberately engineering crises within major opposition parties as a strategy to eliminate meaningful political competition and establish de facto one-party rule.
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