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Onu Lists Dangers of One Party Rule From Ahamefula Ogbu in Abuja Former presidential aspirant of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday outlined the dangers of Nigeria evolving into a one party state and asked all lovers of democracy to work against the emergence of a one party system. According to him, such a development, which has already started manifesting in the manner the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the 2003 elections portends grave dangers for the democratic process. In a lecture at the National Assembly organised by his party to appraise the five years of democracy under the PDP-led government titled, "Nigerians Should Not Allow One Party Rule," Onu said the system foreclosed responsible governance. The lecture, held in the National Assembly complex, was attended by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Party, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, National Chairman of the party, Chief Don Etiebet among others. The Third Republic Governor of Abia State insisted on the rule of law, which he said, was being trampled upon, pointing that the dangers of the constant disobedience of lawful orders of court by President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration and warned that such ridicle of the judiciary could only engender instability. He pointed at the refusal of government to obey court orders during the recent face-off with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over the arbitrary increase in the prices of fuel, which he said, cost the nation millions of naira in an avoidable siuation. The lecturer decried the treatment of the legislature as if it was an alien to the nation's leadership when items under its legislative list were carried out without recourse to the legislators. He traced the genesis of the problem in the "stealing of mandates" and "writing of election results," which he said, has made PDP to boast that it would rule the country for 35 years since it did not need the vote and mandate of the people to do so. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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