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Several governors and federal lawmakers have left opposition parties in recent months to join Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress party. Abdullahi Ganduje, the governing party’s chairman, has also said there was “nothing wrong” with Nigeria becoming a one-party state, angering many in a region threatened with shrinking democratic space.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu denied that there were plans to turn Africa’s largest democracy into a one-party state, pushing back against claims that he’s using state mechanisms to convince high-profile opposition politicians to defect to the governing party.
Several governors and federal lawmakers have left opposition parties in recent months to join Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress party. Abdullahi Ganduje, the governing party’s chairman, has also said there was “nothing wrong” with Nigeria becoming a one-party state, angering many in a region threatened with shrinking democratic space.
In his Democracy Day address to federal lawmakers, Tinubu said that he would be “the last person” to advocate for Nigeria to drop its multiparty structure and adopt a one-party system.
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Dozens of youths, meanwhile, staged protests in the nation’s economic hub of Lagos, where they accused the government of bad governance and profiting off state resources at the expense of millions of citizens.
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