'Nigeria gradually becoming one-party state' - Catholic Bishop Onah

Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Most Rev. Godfrey Onah, has raised the alarm over what he described as Nigeria’s drift into a one-party state, warning that the country now has only one functioning arm of government.

Bishop Onah spoke on Thursday at a public function in Enugu, where he lamented the wave of defections and the collapse of opposition parties 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 said.

According to him, the worst problem is not even the one-party dominance but 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 prove him wrong by stopping what he called the excessive borrowing of over N40 trillion already budgeted to finance the deficit.

He also likened Nigerian politicians to “fluid and gas moving between tanks without return valve,” saying they move from PDP to APC to ADC without ideology, while Nigerians queue in the sun to vote for them, warning that if the trend continues, democracy in Nigeria risks becoming merely ceremonial.

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