The National secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ajibola Basiru, has likened the ruling party to Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian group famed for its door-to-door evangelism.
Basiru was reacting to claims that the APC and the Bola Tinubu-led federal government are steering Nigeria towards a one-party state due to the wave of defections to the ruling party. While speaking on Channels TV, Basiru said
“The country is not our making. The politics of the country is not our making. I think the problem with Nigeria is that we don’t seem to have people who are very serious in opposition and who take their job seriously.
You will not want a ruling party to do this work for you. And I want to challenge your journalists. Tomorrow is a working day. Go around the headquarters of all other political parties and see whether you see any activity going on.
I must first and foremost give credence to the sagacity of not only the president, but the progressives governors’ forum and the leadership of the national working committee of our party.
We go round, we are like Jehovah’s Witnesses, apology to those who belong to that religious organisation… we go round and proselytise our own party in all nooks and cranny.”
