Minority parties have warned that any attempt to foist a one-party dictatorship in the country would be resisted and would fail.

They have also raised alarm over attempts to destabilise the minority parties in the Senate.

Minority Senators, in a statement at the weekend signed by eight minority Senators, noted that there’s an attempt by forces inside and outside the Senate to divide the Minority Parties and foist a pliant and compromised leadership on them.

The Minority Senators, in a statement titled, “ongoing attempt to distabilise the Minority parties in the Senate would be resisted,” disclosed that no Senator has yet been endorsed or selected for any Minority position, adding that they would select its leaders without undue interference from anti-democratic forces within or outside the Senate.

Though they pledged to work constructively with the new Senate leadership and the Executive branch to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people, they warned them not to aid any group inside or outside the Senate to divide and destabilise the minority parties and the Senate institution.

They said: “It has come to the notice of the Minority Political Parties in the Senate of an attempt by forces inside and outside the Senate to divide the Minority Parties and foist a pliant and compromised leadership on them.

“We have pledged to work constructively with the new Senate leadership and the Executive branch to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people. We consequently hereby advise and caution that they should not aid any group inside or outside the Senate to divide and destabilise the minority parties and the Senate institution.

“Senators of the minority Parties would meet when the Senate reconvenes and, in consultation with our respective political parties, would select its leaders without undue interference from anti-democratic forces within or outside the Senate.

“For the avoidance of doubt, no Senator has yet been endorsed or selected for any Minority position as this would await due process as agreed by all Minority Parties in their last meeting.

“Attempts to foist a one-party dictatorship would be resisted and would fail. We call on all members of the Minority Political Parties to work together in unity to defend the democratic institution of the Senate and Nigeria,” they stated.

The senators that signed the statement are; Senator Mohammed Adamu Aliero (Kebbi state), Senator Henry Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa state), Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (Sokoto state), Senator Abdul Ningi (Bauchi state), Senator Patrick Abba Moro (Benue state), Senator Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi (Imo state), Senator Sumaila Kawu (Kano state) and Senator Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah (Anambra state). (Sunday Independent)