Nigeria: Tinubu denies one-party plan after he’s accused of clamping down on opposition

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Thursday denied that there were plans to turn Africa’s largest democracy into a one-party state, pushing back against claims that he’s using state mechanisms to convince high-profile opposition politicians to defect to the governing party.

Several governors and federal lawmakers have left opposition parties in recent months to join Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress party. Abdullahi Ganduje, the…