Defections: We warned Nigerians about APC’s one-party state agenda – Wabara

By Steve Oko

Former Senate President and Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Adolphus Wabara, has said that the caller defections of PDP governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) person confirmed his earlier informing that the APC is pursuing an docket to crook Nigeria into a one-party state.

Wabara, reacting to the defection of Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State and the reported plans by Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State to articulation the APC, accused the ruling enactment of orchestrating the question of defections affecting absorption parties.

Reiterating his earlier presumption that “a one-party authorities is simply a prelude to autocracy and retrogression,” the erstwhile Senate President accused the APC of “stifling democracy” successful Nigeria.

He lamented that the antiauthoritarian gains made nether the PDP are being eroded nether the existent administration.

“I saw this coming. I raised the alarm, but was ignored. This is not the ideology that we jealously nurtured and guarded. This is simply a corrupted mentation of democracy,” Wabara said.

“The ruling APC believes successful intimidating the absorption into submission. No ideology survives without opposition. The APC is sidesplitting Nigeria’s ideology by muzzling dissent.”

Wabara attributed the defections not to the APC’s superiority but to what helium described arsenic “a deliberate ambush of democracy.”

“APC’s refusal to transportation retired electoral reforms that could warrant escaped and credible polls is what is making immoderate of the absorption members defect. This is much of coerced defection,” helium added.

The PDP BoT Chairman argued that the APC has not shown the capableness to rescue the state from its economical and governance challenges.

“Nigerians cognize precise good that determination is thing charismatic successful the APC. It was ne'er prepared for governance, and that is wherefore it has continued to supervise the erosion of our antiauthoritarian values.

Since grabbing powerfulness successful 2015, the APC has superintended Nigeria’s retrogression. Poverty and economical hardship volition basal retired arsenic its top legacies,” helium said.

Wabara further claimed that PDP governors leaving the enactment person performed amended than their APC counterparts but are defecting chiefly to support their governmental futures.

He, however, maintained that their exit would not pb to the illness of the PDP.

“That a fewer individuals decided to permission does not mean the masses person near us. The PDP remains fashionable among Nigerians due to the fact that they cognize however the PDP incubated and preserved our democracy,” helium stated.

“Nigerians tin instrumentality this to the bank: PDP volition not die. We person travel a agelong mode and volition surmount the existent storm.”

Wabara urged enactment members, particularly successful the South East, to stay steadfast, expressing assurance that a brighter aboriginal awaits the PDP up of the 2027 wide elections.

He besides warned the ruling APC not to observe excessively soon, predicting interior crises ahead.

“In 2027, impoverished and suffering Nigerians — not governors — volition determine the destiny of the APC,” Wabara declared.

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