Fortunately for us in this clime, the Nigerian historical cum political environment does not provide a fertile ground for a sustainable one-party state. I don't see a lasting relationship between the leader of a one-party state and the military. Mutual suspicion between the two power blocs can always lead to intense power struggle and eventual collapse of whatever pact.

Nigeria has a history of military dictatorship which raison d'etre for power acquisition was to sustain a hegemony bent on perpetual domination of other parts of the country. This order the hegemons have been able to sustain through a delicate balance of power rotation between the North and South and the use of subtle threat enabled by military dominance. This why I don't see whatever 'inconvenience' Tinubu may have endured to grab power leading to a 'long term gain" in terms of an enduring one-party state.

Tinubu may yet achieve a second tenure through manipulation of the institutions of state including the INEC and the Judiciary but APC will implode immediately after his second tenure just like the PDP before it. In the unlikely event of the sustenance of the one-party state beyond Tinubu's second tenure, then, the press may serve as a useful cannon fodder, easily dispensable opposition. As it is, there will be a total emasculation of the Fourth Estate of The Realm. Or can the press dare a civilian dictator backed by the military? Segun, should provide answers!

At that time, a "new breed politician" was a defined as politician that had never held any political or government position. IBB essentially banned every politician that had ever been elected or appointed to any government office from participating in the political process. PDP (Wike, Saraki, Wagbara, etc) should pursue that same philosophy

They should recruit very young people (in the caliber of the CEOs of Nigerian Banks) into their fold, support their political careers, and encourage them to engage in massive fund raising for their elections. But sadly, this may just be wishful thinking. PDP may not have it in them. Their relevance, in the past, may have been on account of the fact that they were enjoying the gravy train of being in power.

So, sometimes people could feel depressed in the feeling of their powerlessness. They may may feel morally weakened & forlorn in the belief that their fate is permanently sealed by the vicious, poisonous grip holding them down, especially since this grip has lasted for six-and-halve decades & counting! People might be tempted to look at all the forces amassed against liberation from the front, back, left, right & center (& from within & outside Nigeria) & conclude that some people's fate are permanently decided.

But they forget that black liberation in the US was once considered unthinkable! Yet a black eventually led America. They forget that apartheid in South Africa was once accepted as given. Yet today it is the whites who, feeling that the situation is non-conducive, are leaving South Africa. They forget Jews were once at the mercy of enemies everywhere until Alfred Drefuss & later Balfour. Closer home, they forget Nigerians woke up one day to the news that Abacha was no more! They even forget that Buhari, who was wielded the power of life & death, is today not only out of power, but out of this world!

Therefore, as Psalm 37:1-2 says: ''Don’t follow after the wicked ones or be jealous of their wealth. Don’t think for a moment they’re better off than you. They and their short-lived success will soon shrivel up and quickly fade away, like grass clippings in the hot sun.''

Therefore, resistance to changes is only human; but things will still change, unavoidably. And when they do, those who were steadfast become the heroes, while those who were selfish & politically correct become swept away by history as villains.

As concerns Tinubu, out of his illegitimately acquired 48 months in power, he has now spent 29 (remaining 19), to which campaign & elections count in….

By the way his ascension was not singularly his own making. The tribal media, among many other extraneous factors, contributed no small deal. It was in fact a Southwest regional agenda (the SWAGA), augmented at the last moment by the north. In fact his strategic patience consisted in helping to truncate a south-southern presidency in favour of the north, in order to speed up a power return to the south, by which he then robbed the east. And to be successful, he had to make his ambition a regional southwestern agenda pitted against Igbos (& to some extent the north). In which he handsomely succeeded. His policy of strategic patience did not involve contesting against the north, nor in abridging or robbing a southwest turn. It involved doing so in favour of the north, & at the expense of the south south & south east where he was sure to succeed.

But it will end in the same infamy on which it started, & has lasted, & then fade away & be forgotten in ignominy! Yet the Igbo will still ULTIMATELY triumph!

That said, it is dubiousness on your path to pretend you do not know what the solutions are, & that you oppose them for your own selfish reasons the same way politicians act the way they do for their selfish reasons