The APC already has 22 governors and 70 senators. This is just two governors and three senators short of having the two-third majority.
…Nigerians need to be on the watch out… Any attempt to impose a one-party system or a replica of it in our polity will exacerbate the crises that daily confront us. Such a move must be resisted. In 2023, people must be elected into office in free, fair, and credible polls, based on their competence, capacity, experience, and ability to deliver on their promises.
Some people believe that if not for the military incursion in 1966, the Nigeria National Democratic Party was already planning to eclipse the rival Nigeria National Alliance and emerge as the only party in the country.
By the time of the 2007 elections in which Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua emerged as president, the Peoples Democratic Party was also becoming confident, to such an extent that its oligarchy was already talking of ruling for 40 years. That was a declaration of the desire to become the only party in the country. And at one time, the PDP had 24 State governors, out of the 36 in the country, and a comfortable figure in the National Assembly, to make it toy with a one-party system.
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