Defections: We warned Nigerians of APC’s one-party state plan – Wabara

By Steve Oko

Former Senate President and the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the main absorption Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Adolphus Wabara, has said that the defection of PDP Governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, had confirmed his earlier informing that the APC had an docket of pushing Nigeria into a one-party state.

Wabara, who was reacting to the latest defection of Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State and the rumoured planned defection of his Bayelsa State counterpart, Douye Diri, to the APC, accused the nationalist ruling enactment of orchestrating the gale of defection that had deed assorted absorption parties.

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

He regretted that the Nigerian democracy, which had thrived nether the PDP, “is being strangulated” nether the ticker of the ruling APC.

Wabara said that defections were not due to the fact that “the APC is simply a amended level but due to the fact that it has ambushed democracy”.

“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.

“The ruling APC believes successful intimidation of the absorption into submission. No ideology has ever survived without the opposition. APC is sidesplitting Nigeria’s ideology by muzzling the opposition.

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

The erstwhile Senate President said the ruling enactment had not demonstrated immoderate capableness to navigate Nigeria retired of the woods.

“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 implicit Nigeria’s retrogression. The state is present connected the reverse gear. Poverty and economical hardship volition basal retired arsenic APC’s top legacies for Nigeria,” Wabara said.

The erstwhile Senate President argued that the PDP Governors defecting to the APC had each performed amended than their APC counterparts, but were lone leaving the PDP chiefly to safeguard their governmental future.

He, however, declared that their departure would not pb to the illness of the PDP but alteration the erstwhile ruling enactment to reposition itself up of 2027.

Senator Wabara said that though immoderate of the Governors and fewer salient members of the enactment had near the party, the masses are inactive with the PDP.

“That fewer individuals decided to permission does not successful immoderate mode suggest that the masses person near america . PDP is inactive precise fashionable among Nigerian masses due to the fact that they cognize however the PDP incubated and preserved our democracy.

“Nigerians tin instrumentality this to the bank; PDP volition not die. We person travel a agelong way, and we volition surmount the existent storm,” said Wabara.

He urged PDP members, particularly those from the South East, to stay steadfast successful their enactment for the party, expressing assurance that brighter aboriginal awaits the enactment successful 2027.

Senator Wabara told the ruling APC not to observe yet, predicting that the ruling enactment is headed for implosion.

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

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