The incoming chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been cautioned by former PDP deputy national chairman Bode George not to rig the 2027 presidential election.
George said that if INEC installs a president and prevents the people from choosing their own leader in 2027, Nigeria will be “going for hell.”
In an interview, he issued the warning in response to rumors that former President Goodluck Jonathan might run for president in 2027.
According to the PDP chieftain, Nigerians will decide Jonathan’s destiny at the party’s national convention.
He said: “Firstly, I want to plead that the new chairman of INEC must come with a conscience. Because if you don’t allow Nigerians to decide and you impose, we are heading to hell. Let the will be decided by the people who they want. It is easy.
“Look, if you heard me at the beginning, I said the party has decided, the last meeting we had, that affirmatively, the next presidential candidate of the party must come from the South. Where is Jonathan from? Is he not from the South?
“We are not barring anybody else from the South to compete. And I said that in our party, we will go to the national convention where anybody from the South who wants to carry the flag of the PDP, they will compete.”
