A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, says Nigeria can never be a one-party state as the crisis in Osun State persists.

Sowunmi made this known in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday, February 19, stressing that President Bola Tinubu should have ordered the security apparatus to move into action in the state when Governor Ademola Adeleke raised concerns about a potential danger.

He said that Adeleke cannot be bullied by the APC government at the center, adding that the opposition won’t accept a situation where all opposition parties are silenced and forcefully suppressed.

Before the clash that has rocked the state, Governor Adeleke raised the alarm on Sunday, February 16, that APC members backed by security agencies want to hijack the council secretariats in the state.

The governor, who belongs to the PDP, had also asked President Bola Tinubu to caution one of his ministers, Gboyega Oyetola of the APC, over the impending clash.

He said, “The governor was screaming that things were not looking normal. Please call Oyetola to order, but the next thing we see is brigandage.

“When he raised the alarm, everything humanly possible ought to have been given to him as the chief security officer of that state to prevent this kind of bloodbath.

“The president should have told them in clear language that I haven’t sent anybody on my behalf playing God about a tomorrow that they don’t know if it will come or not and begin to play strong-arm politics.

“I don’t like people who say the country is going to be a one-party state because it can never be a one-party state.”

The fracas in Osun State comes as the electioneering activities in the South-West intensify. Oyetola is Adeleke’s predecessor. PDP’s Adeleke had defeated APC’s Oyetola in the 2022 governorship election in the state after one term. Oyetola still has a constitutional one term of four years if he gets the needed votes in the next election next year.

NBA