The National Executive Committee, NEC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has cautioned President Bola Tinubu against an alleged plot to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.

In a communique issued at the end of its 99th NEC meeting on Tuesday in Abuja, the acting PDP National Chairman, Umar Damagum, said: “It is clear that this plot is borne out of APC’s mortal fear of inevitable defeat in 2027 due to its dismal failure in government.”

The communique reads partly: “NEC condemns the worsening insecurity; the wanton killings, banditry, kidnapping, marauding of communities, and other acts of terrorism in various parts of our country, emboldened by President Tinubu’s apparent negligence and abdication of his constitutional duty to ensure the safety and security of the nation and her citizens.

“NEC also laments the worsening economic hardship and extreme poverty in the country occasioned by the ill-advised and ill-implemented policies of the Tinubu administration; hike in fuel price, wanton increase in electricity tariff, multiple taxes and unexplained charges on services, resulting in the collapse of the productive sector, closure of millions of businesses, massive loss of jobs, rise in criminality and a general sense of misery across the country.”

PDP NEC insisted that there has been infrastructural regression under Tinubu’s administration.