2027: Wabara Intensifies Advocacy for Credible Poll, Enlists Diaspora Nigerians to Join Campaign

Former Nigerian Senate President Adolphus Wabara has intensified his advocacy for credible, free, and fair general elections in 2027, taking his campaign to the United States. He has joined forces with former Action Congress vice-presidential candidate Senator Ben Obi to enlist Nigerians living abroad in efforts to counter perceived threats to Nigeria's democracy.

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Our democracy is currently in the ICU (intensive care unit as in health facility). Unless urgent and sincere efforts are made to strengthen our democratic institutions and guarantee credible elections, the future of our nation could be endangered.

Wabara stated that concerted efforts are crucial to safeguard the nation's democratic rule, citing "dangerous signals" that could potentially mar the upcoming 2027 polls. As part of building a coalition against anti-democratic forces, Wabara and his team have held "high-level consultations" with Nigerians in the diaspora to devise a common strategy. These consultations, which transcend party lines, aim to mobilize progressive Nigerians both at home and abroad to defend democratic institutions, preserve political pluralism, and resist any attempts to undermine the multi-party system.

Participants in the ongoing meetings have voiced significant concerns regarding the "undisguised attempts to suffocate opposition parties," the erosion of public confidence in the neutrality of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the potential weakening of Nigeria's democratic foundations. The shared objective, Wabara explained, is to "rescue Nigeria from state capture," liberate the democratic space, and ensure that the people's will, rather than that of a few powerful individuals, prevails in 2027.

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The common objective of these consultations is to rescue Nigeria from state capture, free up the democratic space and ensure that the will of the people, not the will of a few powerful individuals, prevails in 2027.

Describing the consultations as "very fruitful," Wabara anticipates the emergence of a broad national consensus on how to extricate Nigeria from "state capture" and restore faith in the electoral process. He expressed alarm over the current state of Nigeria's democracy, likening its condition to being in an "intensive care unit." He warned that without urgent and sincere efforts to strengthen democratic institutions and guarantee credible elections, the nation's future could be endangered, asserting that the current system represents a distortion of the democracy fought for by the country's founding fathers.

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What we have in Nigeria today is a distorted version of democracy. This is not the democracy our founding fathers fought and made enormous sacrifices to bequeath to us.