Nigeria, May 8 -- Former President Goodluck Jonathan has has warned that any attempt to impose a one-party system in Nigeria will suffocate the nation's political space and potentially lead to chaos and anarchy.

Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday May 7 during a tribute to the late elder statesman Chief Edwin Clark, Jonathan said the current wave of defections to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) could erode democratic balance.

"If we arrive at a one-party state through the back door by political manipulations, then we are heading for crisis," Jonathan cautioned.

He acknowledged that while one-party systems have worked in certain nations under specific historical contexts, Nigeria's complex ethnic and religious fabric requires a mo...