Catholic Bishops urge Nigerians to reject vote-buying, vote-selling ahead of 2027

The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, Most Rev. Matthew Ndagoso, has urged Nigerians to cull vote-buying and vote-selling up of the 2027 wide elections.

Ndagoso, who is besides the Archbishop of the Kaduna Catholic Archdiocese, made the telephone on Sunday in Osogbo, Osun State, portion delivering his code astatine the opening league of the 2nd plenary gathering of the CBCN, hosted by the Osogbo Catholic Diocese.

The Catholic bishops’ president expressed interest implicit increasing disenchantment among Nigerians, peculiarly fears surrounding imaginable manipulation of the electoral process and doubts implicit whether votes would count.

He urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to instrumentality indispensable steps to guarantee that the 2027 elections are free, fair, transparent and credible, informing that distrust successful the process could discourage citizens from voting.

“Anything abbreviated of transparent, free, just and credible elections successful 2027 would beryllium a superior disservice to our country,” Ndagoso said.

He besides called for voters’ cards to beryllium made easy disposable to each ...