PDP Crisis: Saraki Responds As Tinubu Mocks Opposition Parties In Speech

President Abubakar Bukola Saraki, a former Senate President, has responded to President Bola Tinubu’s comments regarding the ongoing turmoil between the opposition parties.
State governors from the opposition parties of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) have reportedly defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the general elections in 2027.
According to President Tinubu’s June 12 Democracy Day speech on Thursday, he was happy to see the opposition parties “in disarray.”

Organizing your home should be your top priority, in my opinion. “Neither will I help you do so,” the Nigerian leader said.

President Tinubu has also denied the claim that his administration is enforcing a one-party system by enticing opposition figures to join the All Progressives Congress, which is currently in power.

After the Democracy Day event at the National Assembly, Saraki addressed media and acknowledged that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is currently in disarray in response to Tinubu’s remarks.

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He exhorted opposition parties and party members to organize appropriately.

“I think we have to believe him,” said Saraki. He was quite successful in expressing his opposition to one-party control, after all. We must believe him when he expresses support for a multi-party system. All of us agree as a result.

We are reaching out to people and asking them to join us because of this. There is no longer any pressure on those who say they are under it. All of us support multi-party, and since he said he would not help, we will try to organize our own homes again.