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Vol 66 No 23

Published 21st November 2025


Nigeria

Tinubu pushes the multi-party system over a cliff

Instead of attacking the government on insecurity and economic woes, the opposition wastes its energy on factional battles

Two resonant images sum up the decline and fall of multi-party politics in Nigeria. The first is of the headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at its Wadata secretariat in Abuja, emblazoned in Nigeria’s green and white national colours, entirely sealed off behind a barbed wire cordon on 19 November. The second, months earlier, seems prescient: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu addresses the National Assembly in Abuja and casts an eye towards once powerful PDP: ‘It is a pleasure to see you in such disarray.’

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