Blame PDP For Nigeria Becoming A One-Party State – Osita Okechukwu

A former Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu has come out to say that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should be held accountable for Nigeria’s slide into a one-party state.

He recently had his say while reacting to insinuations that APC and President Bola Tinubu, were responsible for that, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the insinuations that APC is the architect of the emerging one-party state is clearly misplaced because PDP members have been inflicted by the same humongous culture of impunity it planted in the country’s political culture in their 16 years of being in power.

He added that Nigeria naturally slumped into being a one-party state since the nation’s major opposition party with more than 10 governors has been afflicted by the stomach infrastructure syndrome.

His words, “One, without being immodest, can recall how Alhaji Buba Galadima, the then National Secretary of CPC, was arrested and hounded on the eve of the 2007 general elections and offered all manner of carrots to abandon CPC and, by extension former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Imagine the breach of rotation convention by the PDP leadership, not minding the unintended consequences, with the erroneous thought that His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, will unlock the northern electorate from their dormitory to vote PDP in the 2023 presidential election.

This is a misjudgment, pure and simple, with its collateral damage, one of which is a one-party state.

They (PDP) are at it again with fake arithmetic of South’s 17 years and North’s 11 years rule since 1999, as if Nigeria got independence in 1999.

I am in league with IPMAN, TUC and a host of others for reduction of fuel pump price. Luckily, it is already happening, as NNPC has started the reduction process.

Secondly, I held a meeting with our APC National Chairman, Dr Umar Ganduje, where he assured me that the Livestock Ministry will find a ranch solution to the herders/farmers’ crisis, which will allow farmers to access their farms.

He (Ganduje) also said that President Tinubu is in deep negotiations with investors in the electricity value chain, Eastern Corridor Standard Gauge Railways and Deep Seaports, etc.

It is my candid opinion that with the new mandate, which Tinubu gave the development commissions – South-East, South-West, South-South, North-West, North-Central and North-East – to shop for foreign investors, the economic hardship will be alleviated.”