Second Republic governor of Kaduna State,
Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has predicted that the current mass defection of
politicians from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives
Congress will turn Nigeria into a one-party state.
Musa, in an interview with our
correspondent on Wednesday, said in the coming days, especially after
the governorship and state House of Assembly elections, the APC would
grow stronger and take the status of the PDP while the outgoing ruling
party would fade away gradually.
He said, “What is happening is democratic
and it is inevitable, if you take into account the way the APC emerged.
Almost right from the beginning the APC was 70 per cent of PDP
defectors. This practice started even before the APC.
“It was the situation with the APP after
the PDP won in 1999. It is the bandwagon effect and it is happening
because the APC has won the Presidency. What it really means is that we
are now going to have a one-party state. The PDP will fade away
gradually leaving the APC in the situation the PDP has been in the past
16 years.”
Musa added that it had been the design of
the ruling class to make Nigeria a one-party state so that they could
easily decide who would rule the country.
He said prior to 1999, the ruling class
was going to make the PDP the only viable party in the country, but when
the one-party plan failed they adopted a two-party plan, with the All
Peoples Party, being second and lower party.
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