Tinubu’s insistence stopped PDP from making Nigeria one-party State – Festus Keyamo

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu stopped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from turning Nigeria into a one-party State.

He said the PDP “wiped out” all the States in the South and Northern part of Nigeria, except Lagos State that was under Tinubu’s leadership in 2003.

He ascribed the fact that Nigeria is a multiparty state today to Tinubu’s insistence.

He said: “Without Tinubu, we will not have a multiparty democracy today. That’s the truth! He has earned it.

“If you are wise enough, 2003 was a turning point in Nigeria’s democracy. The PDP wiped out all the people and States in both the South and the North.”

Keyamo said when PDP failed to infiltrate Lagos State, they approached Tinubu to join the party.

Keyamo said “they came to him and said, ‘Oya, Asiwaju come to PDP so that you won’t have problems in 2007. It takes a strength of character and conviction to say ‘No, I won’t join the ruling party.’”

“From Lagos, he started to fight back before he stretched his hands over the Niger and today, we have General Buhari in power.

“That is why we have a multiparty democracy today. If not, this country would have ended up as a one-party State,” he said.