By Parrot Newspaper One-party state Nigeria: Political Diarrhea as Nigeria Heads into a One-Party ICU
By Parrot Editorial Board
Saturday, June 8, 2025
Parrot Newspaper (ISSN 3092-8427)
> “Democracy dies in darkness. But in Nigeria, it’s being sedated in daylight.”
Nigeria is exhibiting dangerous symptoms of political diarrhea, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appears to be the chief physician, prescribing only one drug: the All Progressives Congress (APC). With Akwa Ibom Governor Umo Eno’s recent defection, it is becoming glaringly evident that what’s unfolding isn’t democratic vibrancy—it is systemic political food poisoning, and the presidency is acting like a chef gone rogue.
Let’s be clear: political migration is not a new virus in Nigeria’s bloodstream. But what we’re witnessing under Tinubu’s regime is a contagious outbreak—an orchestrated dismantling of opposition strongholds using coercion, backdoor bargains, and what critics now call “EFCC intimidation therapy.” Nigeria is not just sneezing. The democratic immune system is failing.
Tinubu’s Political Vaccine
Since the president assumed office, his leadership has been marred not only by economic constipation but also by an unrelenting urge to swallow opposition states like a man overdosing on steroids. From Delta to Akwa Ibom, and whispers of Adamawa, Enugu, and Plateau joining the fray, the APC’s strategy is simple: break, bribe, bulldoze, and baptize.
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The presidency has tried to label this trend as a “constitutional right to freedom of association.” But when governors are reportedly meeting in hush-hush sessions with the NSA, while their political godfathers are suddenly being grilled or chilled by federal agencies, Nigerians are not fooled. This is not freedom of association—it is freedom under sedation.
Eno’s comparison of the PDP to a faulty aircraft might have sounded clever, but it masks a disturbing truth: the runway has been cleared, not by the people, but by fear. If every governor now boards the APC flight just to avoid a mid-air EFCC turbulence, then we must admit: Nigeria’s democracy has been grounded.
A One-Party ICU Is Not Progress
The APC’s national convention now looks more like a political isolation ward where previously infected PDP leaders are welcomed after they take the Tinubu vaccine. But this isn’t immunity—it’s impunity.
The idea that we are moving towards progress, simply because defections are happening, is both false and dangerous. Multi-party democracy thrives on dissent, diversity, and balance. But with Tinubu playing political Dr. House, prescribing party loyalty as the only cure, we are watching our democracy bleed out—one governor at a time.
History has taught us that no nation survives long under a one-party system disguised as democracy. What we’re witnessing is a slow-motion seizure of political plurality—camouflaged with red carpets, press coverage, and handshakes. This isn’t nation-building; this is systematic party hoarding.
EFCC, DSS, and the New Political Stethoscope
It would be naïve to overlook how the EFCC and DSS are being perceived in this climate. Increasingly, these institutions are acting less like watchdogs and more like thermometers—used only to measure the fever of opposition figures, while APC loyalists roam freely with unchecked infections of corruption, abuse of office, and betrayal of public trust.
Are these agencies now Tinubu’s surgical tools for political lobotomy? Why are probes launched conveniently when an opposition figure refuses to “cooperate,” but quickly dropped once they receive the APC anointing? This is not coincidence—it is calculated intimidation.
Dear President Tinubu: Nigeria Is Not Your Clinic
Mr. President, democracy is not your private clinic. The states are not your wards, and governors are not patients to be drugged into submission. The presidency must represent the entire nation, not a grand alliance of coerced converts.
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A leader who presides over a country as diverse as Nigeria must strengthen democratic institutions, not stage-manage defections. You were elected to serve, not to dominate. We are not in a one-party state. Not yet. But if this political dysentery is not treated with genuine reform, we may all find ourselves admitted into the ICU of democratic collapse.
Parrot’s Final Diagnosis
This newspaper is not allergic to progress. But when the path to progress is paved with defections laced in fear, silence induced by intimidation, and governance overshadowed by political colonoscopy, we must speak. Loudly. Urgently. Relentlessly.
Our democracy is being flushed. We must resist this toilet bowl politics before Nigeria becomes a one-party autocracy with a democratic sticker.
This is not just a political matter. This is a national emergency. And Parrot Newspaper will continue to scream until someone hears the alarm.
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