The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adebayo Adewole, has claimed the country is edging towards a one-man rule.

This is even as he claimed that the first casualty of the alleged one-man rule is the All Progressives Congress (APC) itself.

Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday on the leadership crisis battling some political parties, the SDP Chieftain urged the opposition to “try as much as possible to minimise errors and internal wrangling and to be united about running their party”.

He, however, noted that every party has one or two elements that will probably be like a saboteur.

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“People worry about a one-party state and that Nigeria is becoming a one-party state. In my own candidate observation and following the evidence, Nigeria is not going towards a one-party state.

“What Nigeria is at risk of is a one-man rule,” Adewole said on the breakfast show.

“If anybody in APC thinks that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is trying to help APC to become the dominant party and [make Nigeria] a one-party state, that’s not the agenda. The agenda is to have a one-man rule.”

“They are inside there, and they are getting used to having no internal democracy. They are getting used to being dictated to by their leader, who is the president now.

“They are not that robust a political party or other political party you will find in Africa, where their internal processes and the people in the party are stronger than those who are in government, and the people in the leadership of the party are in charge of performance, measurement, and supervision of government,” he added.