How Tinubu Prevented Nigeria from Becoming One-Party State – Keyamo
POLITICS DIGEST- The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate spokesman, Festus Keyamo, has said that Nigeria owes the sustenance of its present multi-party democracy to the doggedness and integrity of APC’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He noted that it took the forthrightness of Tinubu to stand against the deft moves by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to turn the country into a one-party state in 2003.
Keyamo made this declaration in Abuja on Tuesday during the unveiling of a new support group, The Progressives Forum (TPF), that transformed from the All Progressives Youth Forum (APYF).
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According to the Minister of State for Labour and Productivity: “Without Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, we will not have a multiparty democracy today. That’s the truth! He has earned it. If you are wise enough 2003, that was a turning point in Nigeria’s democracy. The PDP wiped out all the people and states in both the South and North.
“But Asiwaju fought back and kept Lagos. Although they nearly entered Lagos, he fought fiercely to recover it. At that point, they came to him and said, ‘Oya, Asiwaju come to PDP so that you won’t have problems in 2007.’
“It takes a strength of character and conviction to say ‘No, I won’t join the ruling party.’ From Lagos, he started to fight back before he stretched his hands over the Niger and today, we have General Buhari in power.
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