Don’t Meddle In Nigeria’s Elections, Group Cautions EU, Others

The Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro) has admonished the European Union (EU) and different overseas interests against interference successful Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian institutions, peculiarly the electoral system, judiciary and the legislature.

In an interrogation with LEADERSHIP, the enforcement manager of PeacePro, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, said Nigeria should find its ain antiauthoritarian trajectory without undue outer influence.

He argued that caller calls by the EU Mission for electoral and judicial reforms magnitude to meddling successful the country’s interior affairs.

“While planetary partners are escaped to stock experiences and supply enactment erstwhile invited, dictating reforms for Nigeria’s electoral, judicial oregon legislative systems is unacceptable. Democracy without sovereignty is simply a façade,” helium said.

Hamzat expressed interest that overseas interests are progressively overstepping their boundaries, utilizing argumentation advocacy, legislative lobbying and judicial power arsenic tools to teleguide Nigeria’s interior processes.

He insisted that the inclination is not lone worrisome but besides undermines the nation’s dignity and independence.

“Foreign nations are nary longer satisfied with offering method support; they present actively question to signifier our interior affairs to suit their ain interests. This persistent interference is simply a menace to Nigeria’s sovereignty and nationalist security,” helium added.

Hamzat stressed that genuine reforms successful Nigeria indispensable beryllium domestically driven and rooted successful the country’s unsocial political, societal and taste realities, urging Nigerian leaders to defy outer manipulation and support the independency of the country’s institutions from being compromised.

He called connected civilian nine organisations and citizens to stay vigilant, informing that the excessive obsession of overseas powers with Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian and governance processes, if unchecked, could compromise the nation’s agelong word stability.

“As a nation, we indispensable jealously defender our interior affairs. Sovereignty is not negotiable, and nary state tin spend to outsource its ideology to overseas powers,” helium said.