The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians to resist what it described as “anti-democratic” designs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), particularly the “plot to foist a despotic one-party regime in Nigeria”.
The party urged Nigerians in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Democracy Day, June 12, 2025, to resist the alleged plot in the interest of the country’s democracy.
According to the opposition political party, “Nigerians should use the occasion of the June 12 Democracy Day to re-awaken and strengthen their resistance to the anti-democratic designs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), particularly the plot to foist a despotic One-Party regime in Nigeria.
“The PDP urges Nigerians, Institutions of Democracy, Organized Civil Society, Development Partners and indeed all lovers of democracy to unite in speaking out against the stifling of democratic tenets of justice, the Rule of Law, free, fair, peaceful credible electoral process and the right of citizens particularly to freely participate in politics and governance in Nigeria.”
The party alleged that the current administration is using poverty as a means to force Nigerians to do its bidding.
It accused the APC of being unaccountable to Nigerians and colluding with corrupt leaders in the judicial and National Assembly.
“The PDP is alarmed by the anti-democratic actions of the APC government which continues to use compromised state apparatus of powers and control to brazenly violate the Constitution, emasculate opposition, defy and abridge the liberty of the citizens to freely elect their leaders, corrupt and manipulate Institutions of Democracy, asphyxiate the media and weaponise poverty, all in the attempt to impose a defeatist mentality on the people and turn our nation into a fiefdom and personal estate of few individuals in power.
“More distressing is that the APC-led Presidency has remained unaccountable while colluding with the corrupt, rubber stamp APC leadership in the National Assembly and certain compromised Judicial officers at very high places to undermine the sovereignty of the people ostensibly to clear the path for a totalitarian system in our country.
