Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Most Rev. Godfrey Onah, has raised the alarm over what he described as Nigeria’s drift right into a one-party state, warning that the nation now has just one functioning arm of presidency.
Bishop Onah spoke on Thursday at a public perform in Enugu, the place he lamented the wave of defections and the collapse of opposition events into the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
“Gradually, all the parties, all the other parties, are collapsing into one party. We don’t have political parties based on ideologies. We have platforms for getting into power, remaining in power and having access to public funds,” he stated.
According to him, the worst drawback shouldn’t be even the one-party dominance however the collapse of checks and balances.
“The worst problem is that there are no longer three arms of government. There is now only one arm of government – the executive. The executive has sucked up both the judiciary and the legislature,” Bishop Onah declared.
He challenged federal lawmakers to show him mistaken by stopping what he known as the extreme borrowing of over N40 trillion already budgeted to finance the deficit.
He additionally likened Nigerian politicians to “fluid and gas moving between tanks without return valve,” saying they transfer from PDP to APC to ADC with out ideology, whereas Nigerians queue within the solar to vote for them, warning that if the development continues, democracy in Nigeria dangers becoming merely ceremonial.
