Nigeria: Don’t create one-party state through backdoor, Jonathan warns

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has warned against any attempt to transform Nigeria into a one-party state through political manipulation, stating that such a move would be dangerous and destabilising for the country’s fragile democracy.

Jonathan issued the warning in Abuja on Wednesday while delivering a tribute at a memorial lecture held in honour of the late elder statesman and nationalist, Chief Edwin Clark.

While acknowledging that some countries have successfully practised…