2027: We don’t have any preferred candidate in Nigeria’s elections – UK

The British Deputy High Commissioner successful Nigeria, Gill Lever, has said that Britain does not person immoderate preferred campaigner successful the 2027 wide elections successful Nigeria.

Lever made this clarification connected Tuesday during a courtesy sojourn to Kwara State politician and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, astatine Government House, Ilorin.

The envoy reiterated that the British authorities would not interfere successful the behaviour of the elections, stressing that her state would beryllium funny successful free, peaceful and credible elections.

According to him, the British authorities would enactment free, peaceful and credible predetermination successful Nigeria adjacent year

“Downing Street has nary favourite governmental enactment and volition not beryllium seen interfering successful section governmental matters.

“We each privation to spot elections that are peaceful, that are inclusive, that are credible, with abstraction for participation, with respect for institutions.

“The British government, arsenic you’ll understand, is wholly neutral. We bash not favour 1 enactment oregon another, and we would ne'er beryllium successful the concern of telling Nigerian radical however to vote.

“But peaceful and credible elections, of course, are not lone a antiauthoritarian objective. This is not lone astir the Commonwealth values and th...