{"id":166757,"date":"2025-06-13T21:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange"},"modified":"2025-06-13T23:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:11:27","slug":"tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu&#8217;s Recent Comments on One-Party State Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan has described President Bola Tinubu\u2019s remark on one-party state as strange.<\/p>\n<p>Ologbondiyan spoke on Channels TV\u2019s Morning brief on Friday, while fielding questions.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Tinubu had while addressing the National Assembly on Thursday, debunked claims that his administration plans to make Nigeria a one-party state.<\/p>\n<p>The president, however, stated that he is happy that the opposition parties are in disarray and will not help them.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu said: \u201cTo those who ring the alarm that the APC is intent on a one-party state, I offer you a most personal promise. While your alarm may be as a result of your panic, it rings in error.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Ologbondiyan insisted that he never expected Tinubu to come out in public and admitted he was behind the design to bring a one-state party system to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never expected Mr president to come to the public arena and declare that he knows nothing about the plot to bring up the one party state,\u201d Ologbondiyan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not expecting the president to come and say I am behind the design to bring in a one party state no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not seen when he spoke on the need to reform the electoral process even in that remark Mr president said oh he have not seen any means in the INEC to say that INEC should not register any parties but those who have filed for registration have come out to say they have refused to register them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a case of a particular intent of a group of people who want for registration and they have completed all the processes and they have been told to come for their certificate, day in day out they have not been issued that certificate,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also strange to me that Mr president will come up and say oh forever and ever I will never be involved in a one party plot but the design of the party, even members of his own cabinet have come out to ask even on channels TV to say where will they find a party to contest on, the president doesn\u2019t need by himself to come out and say don\u2019t register this party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan has described President Bola Tinubu\u2019s remark on one-party state as strange. Ologbondiyan spoke on Channels TV\u2019s Morning brief on Friday, while fielding questions. Recall that Tinubu had while addressing the National Assembly on Thursday, debunked claims that his administration plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":166756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,17784,945],"class_list":["post-166757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-ologbodiyan","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu&#039;s Recent Comments on One-Party State Strange - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan has described President Bola ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu&#039;s Recent Comments on One-Party State Strange\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan has described President Bola ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-13T20:56:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-13T22:11:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749840149.571997.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu&#8217;s Recent Comments on One-Party State Strange\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-13T20:56:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-13T22:11:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange\"},\"wordCount\":403,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749840149.571997.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Ologbodiyan\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-recent-comments-on-one-party-state-strange\",\"name\":\"Tinubu's Recent Comments on One-Party State Strange - 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