2027: Threatening remarks by APC members raise fears over Nigeria’s elections

As Nigeria moves person to the 2027 wide elections, comments by immoderate elder members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) person sparked nationalist concern.

Some of the statements person been described arsenic threatening, intimidating oregon attempts to enactment unit connected voters to enactment the ruling party.

One illustration is the contention involving Osun East Senator, Francis Fadahunsi, who was accused of threatening members of the Accord Party successful Ilesa up of the Osun State governorship election.

He aboriginal withdrew the connection successful which helium threatened to termination absorption members.

Similarly, an adjutant to the president of Kuje Area Council was reported to person warned residents that, “If you bash not ballot for Tinubu and APC candidates, Kuje is not a spot for you to live.”

More recently, determination was nationalist choler implicit comments attributed to the Borno State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Sainna Buba.

In a video that circulated widely, Buba was reported to person said that unit could beryllium utilized against radical who refused to enactment the APC successful the 2027 elections.

He was besides accused of threatening to chopped disconnected the manus of anyone who refused to ballot for the party.

As the contention continued, different connection emerged from Yobe State.

The APC president successful the state, Muhammad Gadaka, was antecedently reported to person told women whose husbands sto...