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 operate 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 of the events, all the opposite events, are collapsing into one social gathering. We do not have political events primarily based on ideologies. We have platforms for moving into energy, remaining in energy and gaining access to public funds,” he mentioned.
According to him, the worst drawback is just not even the one-party dominance however the collapse of checks and balances.
“The worst drawback is that there are not three arms of presidency. There is now just one arm of presidency – the manager. The government has sucked up each the judiciary and the legislature,” Bishop Onah declared.
He challenged federal lawmakers to show him unsuitable 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 gasoline transferring between tanks with out 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.
