{"id":238837,"date":"2026-01-06T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/politicians-are-like-ghosts-udenta-explains-why-one-party-state-is-impossible-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:06:26","slug":"politicians-are-like-ghosts-udenta-explains-why-one-party-state-is-impossible-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/politicians-are-like-ghosts-udenta-explains-why-one-party-state-is-impossible-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Are Like Ghosts \u2013 Udenta Explains Why One-Party State Is Impossible In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Former National Secretary of the Defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD), Udenta Udenta, has shared his thoughts on why any attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to create a one-party state would fail.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday during an appearance on Arise Television, Udenta opined that a diverse country like Nigeria would refuse a one-party State.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the APC will be leaner after its primaries with other parties picking up the pieces.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that politicians are like ghosts and move from one party to another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The flatulence of the APC is over gurgling. It is already happening in Rivers State, which is a sign post for systemic disorder within the party\u2019s administrative infrastructure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA multinational, heterogeneous, diverse country will resist the emblem of a one party state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAny attempt by the APC to achieve what he sent out to accomplish in the past two and a half years, will fade. Politicians, you must understand, are ghosts. They meander around.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne to two years ago, ADC wasn\u2019t really something you could talk about as a party to reckon with, but with the movement in the Southeast and across the country with the Obidients and Peter Obi, they have reinforced that particular platform,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n                                                                                                            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Secretary of the Defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD), Udenta Udenta, has shared his thoughts on why any attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to create a one-party state would fail. Speaking on Tuesday during an appearance on Arise Television, Udenta opined that a diverse country like Nigeria would refuse a one-party State. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[287,1969],"class_list":["post-238837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-udenta-udenta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Prof-Udenta.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}