2027: Nigerians won’t vote if they believe APC will win – Onaiyekan warns

The Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has warned that voters would not crook retired successful the 2027 wide elections if Nigerians reason that triumph is already guaranteed for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.  

Speaking on Monday during a programme connected Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese-Ijebu, monitored by DAILY POST successful Abeokuta, the Cardinal said cognition matters arsenic overmuch arsenic the ballot itself.

He cautioned that content successful a predetermined result would discourage citizens and harm the legitimacy of immoderate authorities that emerges.  

“My fearfulness is that if it becomes precise wide to Nigerians that nary substance what happens, the APC volition win, past astir radical won’t adjacent fuss to spell to the election,” Onaiyekan said. “And adjacent if the government, the existent powerfulness wins, it volition not bring a existent triumph actually. And it is not going to beryllium imaginable to present bully government.”  

The cleric stressed that restoring nationalist assurance successful the electoral process is captious to improving governance, stressing that ideology tin lone thrive wherever ...