“China is one of the strongest countries in the world, and it’s a one-party system…”
Abdullahi Ganduje, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Nigeria becoming a one-party state would not be problematic if it is the people’s choice.
Ganduje made the remark Friday after leading three senators from Kebbi state—Adamu Aliero, Yahaya Abdullahi, and Garba Maidoki—from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to declare for the APC in a meeting with President Bola Tinubu.
Reacting to concerns that mass defections could erode Nigeria’s multiparty democracy, Ganduje said: “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.”
He added: “China is one of the strongest countries in the world, and it’s a one-party system… we cannot quarrel with that.”