The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded elections, Atiku Abubakar, has appealed to the opposition political parties in the country to merge against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Atiku said the opposing political parties should form a coalition because APC was pushing Nigeria into dictatorship and a one-party state.
Atiku spoke while receiving a delegation from the national executive committee of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) on Tuesday.
The former Vice President noted that Nigeria’s democracy would suffer if there is no viable opposition.
According to Atiku: ‘You have come here today to say that we should cooperate in order to promote democracy.
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‘But the truth of the matter is that our democracy is fast becoming a one-party system, and of course, you know that when we have a one-party system, we should just forget about democracy.
‘We have all seen how the APC is increasingly turning Nigeria into a dictatorship of one party.
‘If we don’t come together to challenge what the ruling party is trying to create, our democracy will suffer for it, and the consequences of it will affect the generations yet unborn. The project of protecting democracy in our country is not about just one man.’
In another report, the former National Vice Chairman (North West) of Nigeria’s ruling party, Salihu Moh Lukman has claimed that President Bola Tinubu and each of the governors on the platform of the the All Progressives Congress (APC) spent nothing less ₦150 billion and ₦14 billion respectively to win both the primary and the main elections this year.
The party’s Chief who made the claim alleged that Tinubu spent over N50 billion to pick the presidential ticket during the primary and at least N100 billion to win the main presidential election.