Senator Seriake Dickson, National Leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), has explained that he declined to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) because he did not want Nigeria to drift into a one-party state. Dickson spoke in Abuja on Thursday when the management of LEADERSHIP Newspaper, led by its Vice Chairman, Mike Okpere, presented him with the notification of the newspaper's 2026 Politician of the Year award. The former Bayelsa State governor said his decision followed the decline of his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to him, rather than move to the ruling APC, he opted to help establish the NDC as an alternative political platform and contribute to sustaining multiparty democracy.
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