2023: Nigeria Is Derailing – Jonathan Speaks After Receiving Tinubu

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has stated that Nigeria’s democracy is drifting in direction of dictatorship.

This declaration is coming after the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, visited Jonathan to hunt his assist forward of the 2023 elections.

Talking on the seventieth birthday of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah on Wednesday in Abuja, Jonathan insisted that each one palms should be on deck to avoid wasting the nation.

Jonathan suggested Nigerians to stay vigilant.

He stated, “The duty earlier than all of us is to not decrease our guard, lest the democracy we cherish as we speak succumbs to threats and recedes into fascism tomorrow, and there are indicators already.

“Trying on the states and so forth, we’re derailing in direction of quasi-fascist type of authorities, however democracy will not be solely about profitable elections alone, it’s about lodging. We, as leaders on the centre and on the state ranges, particularly presently when elections are coming, should accommodate totally different views.

“In the direction of this purpose, we’re once more confronted with alternative of selecting our leaders because the nation prepares to go to the polls subsequent yr. Allow us to select these that can take us to the specified vacation spot and the promised land.”