Sokoto, 04 November, 2021 / 9:59 pm (ACI Africa).
The success of the planned gubernatorial elections in Nigeria’s Anambra State will be determined by the lack of casualties and violence during the exercise, a Catholic Bishop in the West African nation has said.
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah said that while the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is charged with ensuring that the Saturday, November 6 polls go on smoothly, the election will not be considered credible, free and fair “if one person loses his life.”
“The most important parameter to consider the election a success is that nobody needs to lose their life,” the Local Ordinary of Nigeria’s Sokoto Diocese has been quoted as saying Wednesday, November 3.
Many Nigerians have lost their lives “unnecessarily”, the Nigerian Bishop observes, and reiterates, “The most important thing is to make sure that nobody loses their life, nobody suffers any unwanted injury.”
Bishop Kukah who was speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the National Peace Committee (NPC) stakeholders meeting in Awka, the capital of Anambra State, also urged the people of God in the Nigerian State to turn up and vote in large numbers saying, “Voter apathy in Africa and Nigeria has consequences” unlike other democracies.
