Presidential aspirant Atiku Abubakar have stated that the nation is gradually moving from a democratic system to an authoritarian system under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
In a post on X, Atiku stated that the opposition voice is being systematically erased under the current government
Atiku wrote: “The gains of June 12 were hard-won. But sadly, the democratic promise that blossomed in 1999 is being steadily dismantled before our very eyes.
“Today, Nigeria teeters on the edge of a dangerous precipice—a creeping one-party dictatorship is replacing the democratic order we bled for. Those who laid down their lives did not do so for Nigerians to groan under the yoke of authoritarianism and economic suffocation.
“The ruling party and its federal government now govern with the unmistakable intent to dominate, subdue, and silence.
“Their tactics are not subtle. Opposition voices are being systematically erased. Contracts for multi-billion-naira infrastructure are funnelled to cronies and family associates of the president.
“National institutions, once symbols of unity, are being brazenly renamed in honour of a sitting president, as though the country were a private estate.
“What we are witnessing is not governance, it is conquest.”
Meanwhile President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as earlier reported on GmartNews have dismissed rumors stating that he cannot stop politicians from joining the ruling party and that the party was for all Nigerians
