There are signs of political powers in the nation shifting towards the All Progressive Congress, subsequently causing fears of rail-roading the nation towards a one-party state. Some significant developments have arisen in this regard. One is the assertion by Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) that the party was having conversations to get some resistance ideological groups to fall into the APC. Two is the arrangement of individuals from the resistance into the President Bola Tinubu administration, which itself presents prospect of cross-carpeting in parties.

Ganduje, former governor of Kano State and the newly appointed National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) stumbled off the alert when he said he imagined the consolidation of APC with resistance groups and highlighted the improvement of an outline to accomplish that. For his purposes, such a move would work on the possibilities of the party, particularly in 2027. In a different view to this turn of events, Osita Chidoka, a PDP stalwart and former Aviation Minister, cautioned that his party could become terminated on the off chance that changes were not done. That's what he noticed: "The PDP is an administration that was in power for a long time. Its intuition is that of an administration party; not a resistance. Furthermore, it has taken us eight years to start to understand this. We smell the espresso; that it's not four years and we are back… or we are returning the following day… Presently, we are starting to see that PDP itself should be reformed. It necessities to reestablish and rethink itself to have the option to start to assume the part of resistance, realizing without a doubt that we have a politician as president."

Remarkably, the PDP surrendered a few states in the south-east and south districts to a revived Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election.

Following the triumph of the APC in the February General elections, washouts looking for pertinence and advantages of officialdom are shifting towards the ruling APC in manners that might overwhelm existing resistance groups in Nigeria. The most grounded sign yet toward this path is the arrangement of Nyesom Wike, the leader of a faction of the People’s Democratic Party and two-term Governor of Rivers State as Minister in President Tinubu’s cabinet. Added to this is the appointment of Chiedu Ebie, former Secretary to the State Government of Delta State as the chair of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by the president. Mr Ebie is a known partner to Ifeanyi Okowa and James Ibori who are PDP stalwarts.

Wike has depicted strong inclination to stay put in the PDP, however given his role in the sustenance of PDP when it transformed into resistance subsequent to losing to the current ruling party in 2015, his exit from the party could flag more trouble for its survival. The result is that the resistance might become rudderless given the fact that a modest bunch of the current 20 political parties can marshal resistance to the policies of the ruling APC.

This present circumstance isn't new. Since the inauguration of the fourth republic in 1999, the champ brings home all the glory Nigeria's presidential system has molded political actors towards moving into the ruling party. Sooner or later, the PDP, up until recently the ruling party in the nation nearly transformed into a behemoth to the degree that its authorities flaunted that the party would oversee the country for two ages.

Essentially, resistance components of the period that collected into the APC had similarly raised caution about the tyrant pattern and the proclivity of the then PDP transforming the country into a one-party state. The Former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is now the leader of the nation cautioned at the time against allowing the nation to float into a one-party state. He noted then that the activities of the National Assembly that was overwhelmed by PDP were floating Nigeria towards an authoritarian state, especially, its nosiness in the planning of the dates and design of elections for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as an independent agency.

Other parties, for example, the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) that has correspondingly raised the caution that Nigeria was going towards a one-party state had in 2019 cautioned Nigerians about the shenanigans of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of putting forth attempts to go to a one-party state and disturbed at the famous practice in the nation where politicians shamelessly cross-carpet to any ruling party upon defeat in political race.

The worst thing about Nigeria's majority rule government is the failure of framing an ideological group in the strictest feeling of the word political elite. As the late Raheemat Momodu suitably put it: "Parties serve as the singular most important arena, avenue and medium for political participation everywhere in the world. Thus, political participation must be channeled through the parties to access power and be part of government… a political party is the door and key to political participation and the engine room of democracy." Edmurke Burke highlighted its public interest part when he characterized an ideological group, as "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." In the event that Nigerian politicians figure out the significance of ideological group and are not dazed by eagerness, they would maybe act differently.

Considering the previous, three significant focuses should be watched against sliding towards a single-party state, specifically, the multi-ethnic nature of the Nigerian state, the idea of liberal majority rules government, and the magnificence of opposition in a nation.

The ethnic and linguistic variety of Nigeria is amazing. Correspondingly, they ooze cultural differences and manifest different dreams of cultural turn of events. To sabotage these varieties through some domineering plan, whether utilizing a solitary party framework, or strength of key public institutions, is to annihilate the national spirit and sound the mark of the end of the Nigerian state on the grounds that the elements of variety would, without a doubt, manifest in separatist impulses. Aside from that, the nation loses the advantage of an elective vision of cultural turn of events.

The liberal majority rules government that the Nigerian elite picked in 1999 would be totally sabotaged by a float into one-party state. Liberal majority rules government flourishes in freedom of association and of free expression, anything less, is an unabashed tyrant building.

Resistance is significant in a majority rule government. It enjoys the innate benefit of foiling dictator enticement; and it improves the public vision by valuable analysis of the power that be. As the Ghanaian scholar, Ansa Asamoa, when noticed, the vital quality of liberal majority rules government is the presence of multiparties with different ideologies, philosophies and are a sound peculiarity for the nation.

It is in the general public interest to stay away from a single party system in Nigeria. Assuming the African experience is any example for us, it is that such an improvement is the fastest route to raging dictatorship, and it should be stayed away from.

They won't listen. Single party political system isn't just dictatorial, it's pure witchcraft and voodooism. Nigerians want to experience the pain to understand why, so they won't listen