The Coalition of Middle Belt Groups (CMBG) has raised the alarm that Nigeria is gradually slipping into a one-party state under the watch of President Bola Tinubu, claiming that the rate at which members of opposition parties are losing their seats is a pilot by “closet fascists aiming to transform Nigeria into a one-party dictatorship.”
Part of the statement reads,
“What should scare Nigerians and the world at large, gentlemen of the press, is that they plan to implement this playbook in other non-APC states in order for the party to control all the states of the Federation in the next eighteen months. In this, the Middle Belt is particularly endangered because we will bear the brunt of any resulting insecurity from this criminal experiment they are performing with Nigeria’s democracy.”