Dele Momodu: APC turning Nigeria into one-party state

Director of Strategic Communications, PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Dele Momodu has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of turning Nigeria into a one-party state.

Momodu stated this as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Thursday.

He said that last Saturday’s presidential election was a waste of taxpayer’s resources and one of the worst organised in Nigeria’s history.

The PDP chieftain said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by President Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed the fears of Nigerians that the ruling party was ready to remain in power by all means necessary.

He said that the APC-led government should not have bothered to conduct the election of last Saturday, which he described as another sad day for our country.

According to him, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to deliver on its promises, especially on the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) and an on-time transmission of results through its Result Viewing Portal (IReV).

“It was a day Nigerians were supposed to get it right. There were so much drama and melodrama and promises upon promises, BVAS will be a game-changer, but what we witnessed was a charade.”

“One of our worst elections took place in 1983. In 1993 we had our best elections, it was killed. Now in 2023, we were much worse than we were in 1983, a year you could called an analog era.

“So, with all the billions, if not trillions wasted on this election, we must as well as told Nigerians: APC is not ready to go; we don’t need an election. We are turning Nigeria to a one-party state.

“I’m sure in our usual docility, we would agree but to waste all that money, waste peoples’ time? I pity the young people the most; they came out, they had faith, they had hope in their country and they came out and they dashed that hope instead of renewed hope.

“So, for us, the election was a complete waste of resources,” he said.

The PDP chieftain said that the INEC-declared result did not tally with what the party agents reported.