President of the ANAP Foundation Atedo Peterside has warned that allowing only one major political party to contest the 2027 presidential election would put Nigeria’s political stability at serious risk.
Speaking in an interview from 10:02 with Arise TV, Peterside said, “If INEC makes the mistake of going into a general election with only one major party, I don’t want to predict what will happen to this nation. But all bets are off in terms of stability. That is my assessment. So I would advise whoever has ears to listen. If you want stability in a political system, you have to give a semblance of making people believe that some change is possible and that you are willing to allow some contest, some meaningful contest.”
Peterside also referenced the Abacha era, when the late military ruler engineered a political environment designed to make him the sole presidential candidate, a situation that history has shown to be unsustainable.
He argued that any system that visibly manipulates itself to shut out genuine opposition does not just lose legitimacy, it loses the stability that legitimacy provides…Read_More…