UK to deploy observers for Ekiti, Osun governorship elections

The United Kingdom has said it is intimately monitoring Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian process and is keenly funny successful the country’s adjacent wide elections scheduled for 2027.

British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, stated this on Thursday during a courtesy sojourn to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, successful Abuja.

Montgomery said the UK would proceed to respect Nigeria’s sovereignty but noted that developments successful the state are important to Britain due to the fact that of its economic, financial, and information interests.

He disclosed that the UK would nonstop perceiver delegations to the upcoming off-cycle governorship elections successful Ekiti and Osun States.

“We volition nonstop delegations to observe the elections due to the fact that these volition beryllium the last off-season governorship elections earlier the wide elections adjacent year. We privation to spot peaceful, credible and palmy elections,” helium said.

The envoy stressed the value of Nigeria to the UK, describing it arsenic Africa’s largest state and a cardinal partner.

“We volition ever attack Nigeria with respect. Nigeria is by acold the largest state successful Africa and what happens present matters greatly. We person important economic, fiscal and information investments successful Nige...