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Friday, September 30, 2022
Goodluck Jonathan, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has known as on candidates within the 2023 common elections to make their campaigns issues-based and violence-free, warning that hate-filled electioneering might wreck Nigeria’s democracy.
Mr Jonathan made the decision in his digital goodwill message learn on Thursday in Abuja on the signing of the primary Nationwide Peace Accord on the 2023 common elections, which presidential candidates and their events attended.
The presidential race involving ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso, Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu is anticipated to be probably the most aggressive within the 2023 common elections.
He additionally urged the candidates, political promoters and supporters to train restraint.
“We’re at a important stage in our nationwide life the place we have now no selection however to advertise nationwide cohesion, love and hope with a view to make the specified progress. We can’t afford to proceed to play politics of bitterness and division alongside ethnic and spiritual strains,” stated Mr Jonathan. “It is because such sort of politics portends nice hazard to our unity, progress and the sustenance of our democracy.”
The ex-president warned of the “damaging impression of hate speech, faux information and senseless propaganda, particularly in a clime the place the material of unity and stability nonetheless must be strengthened.”
“They need to, by all means, keep away from useless assaults on personalities and use of abusive language for these are the weather that trigger chaos and disaster throughout elections,” Mr Jonathan added.
He declared that guaranteeing peaceable elections in 2023 was “our collective duty.”
Jonathan urged Nigeria to lift the bar in credible and clear elections by guaranteeing that the nation’s electoral course of is peaceable, free and honest.
“Since I left workplace in 2015, I’ve been concerned within the strategy of selling democracy throughout Africa. My expertise as an election observer, having led remark missions to many nations, is that many African nations are working laborious to enhance their elections and deepen the roots of democracy of their land,” the ex-Nigerian chief identified.
He hoped “our nation to lift the bar for credible and clear elections by guaranteeing that our electoral processes are peaceable, free and honest.”
(NAN)
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