Fears over Nigeria’s stability, credible polls top citizens’ anticipation in 2019

Nigerians from across different social strata, who expressed expectations and apprehension for the New Year to The Guardian, said ensuring a credible general election and security of lives and property was their major concerns.

But contrary to optimism that a credible general election would put the country on the path of stability and progress, the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) and apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, expressed sadness over the state of affairs in the country in 2018.

NADECO chieftain, Dr. Amos Akingba, noted that the country could not fair better given the perceived unitary system in operation and consequently declared that each of the country’s original three regions should go their separate ways.

The Guardian, January 1, 2019

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