The Save Nigeria Group has said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and the emerging mega opposition party, All Progressives Congress, lack the ideology to be the dominant parties in a two-party system. In an interview with our correspondent, the Publicity Secretary, SNG, Yinka Odumakin, while faulting the call for two-party system in the country, noted that countries like Britain and the Unites States of America had two dominant political parties.
Odumakin said, “In our political sphere, having a two-party system is like having a one-party state. When you look at the character of the politicians who are in the parties that appear to have dominion, they are not different from each other.
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“They are photocopies and that’s why there are so many (political) fugitives; they can defect from one party to another easily. Most of the forces in the emerging party are former members of the PDP.”
“(The National Publicity Secretary, Action Congress of Nigeria) Lai Mohammed is celebrating that 12 governors from the PDP are coming to APC; if you then have PDP and APC in the two-party system, leaving the electorate to make choices between the two, where would the people who don’t fit into the two find their expression?”
Odumakin warned that two-party system might lead to dictatorship by political godfathers. He said if the country desired two-party system, the dominant partied should evolve naturally.
“Once you allow a place where anybody can dictate the number of political parties to us, they can do and undo. Yes, we can have two parties but let them evolve naturally. Let nobody dictate to us, it is undemocratic. It is conscripting the political space and enthroning the primitive choices of Nigerians in terms of political participation,” he stated.
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