The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, (SAN) has eulogized Tinubu, saying that he stopped the Peoples Democratic Party from turning Nigeria into a one-party state.
Keyamo posited that Tinubu’s vision and forthrightness put stop to the PDP’s plan to turn the country into a one-party state.
The senior lawyer made this disclosure in Abuja on Tuesday
He recalled that the PDP “wiped out” all the States in the South and Northern parts of Nigeria, except Lagos State which was under Tinubu’s leadership in 2003.
According to Keyamo, Tinubu’s insistence made Nigeria a multiparty democracy.
He said: “Without Tinubu, we will not have a multiparty democracy today. That’s the truth! He has earned it.
“If you are wise enough, 2003 was a turning point in Nigeria’s democracy. The PDP wiped out all the people and States in both the South and the North.”
Keyamo said when PDP failed to infiltrate Lagos State, they approached Tinubu to join the party.
Keyamo said “they came to him and said, ‘Oya, Asiwaju come to PDP so that you won’t have problems in 2007.
“It takes a strength of character and conviction to say ‘No, I won’t join the ruling party.’”
The minister stressed that Tinubu’s insistence brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power in 2015.
“From Lagos, he started to fight back before he stretched his hands over the Niger, and today, we have General Buhari in power.
“That is why we have a multiparty democracy today. If not, this country would have ended up as a one-party State,” he said.