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Former Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of attempting to weaken absorption parties up of aboriginal elections.
He spoke to journalists connected Saturday nighttime aft the African Democratic Congress (ADC) held its authorities legislature successful Sokoto.
Tambuwal claimed the president is moving to guarantee absorption parties stay unstable. According to him, interior crises successful rival parties are being deliberately encouraged to payment the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
He warned that Nigeria could beryllium drifting towards one-party dominance by design, drafting comparisons with the epoch of erstwhile subject ruler Sani Abacha, erstwhile governmental parties rallied down a azygous candidate.
Tambuwal besides alleged that the authorities has interfered successful absorption parties specified arsenic the Labour Party and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) successful a bid to weaken them.
“This is reminiscent of the epoch erstwhile each governmental parties aligned down a azygous candidate,” helium said, informing that specified a inclination could harm Nigeria’s democracy.
The erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives besides criticised the existent administration’s handling of the system and security, citing rising poverty, unemployment, and insecurity.
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