2027: Atiku alleges plot to disenfranchise Northern Nigeria voters

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has expressed sedate interest implicit claims that the Nigerian Senate is considering the suspension of governmental campaigns successful 8 Northern states nether the pretext of rising insecurity up of 2027 wide elections.

In a connection issued by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku described the improvement arsenic profoundly troubling and fraught with unsafe implications for Nigeria’s democracy.

Atiku noted that portion insecurity remains a superior nationalist situation that indispensable beryllium confronted decisively, it indispensable ne'er go a convenient justification for undermining law rights oregon selectively restricting antiauthoritarian participation.

“Let it beryllium intelligibly stated: the close to ballot and enactment successful the electoral process is cardinal and cannot beryllium abridged nether immoderate guise. Any attempt—whether deliberate oregon disguised—to suppress governmental activities successful parts of Northern Nigeria raises morganatic concerns astir disenfranchisement,” Atiku said.

He recalled that credible quality had earlier pointed to imaginable pla...