Former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Bode George, has cautioned the incoming INEC Chairman against manipulating the 2027 presidential election.
George stressed that Nigeria would be “heading for hell” if INEC imposes a president instead of allowing citizens to freely elect their leader.
Speaking in an interview with Arise Television, the PDP stalwart reacted to speculations about former President Goodluck Jonathan contesting in 2027.
Bode George insisted that Jonathan’s candidacy, like that of others from the South, would ultimately be decided at the party’s National Convention.
Bode George 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 simple.
Look, the party has decided that the next presidential candidate of the PDP 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.”
