INEC, Judiciary Won’t Decide 2027 Polls, Says US-based Group

A socio-political interest group, Big Thumb Network (BTN), has said Nigerians will decide the outcome of the 2027 general elections.

The group added that the “spurious algebraic conspiracy between the federal electoral body and the judiciary” that played out in 2023 will not be allowed to repeat itself.

BTN, a United States of America (USA) based group, in a communique after a roundtable organised in conjunction with Save Democracy Mega Alliance (SDMA) and Indigenous Food Allied Processors Association Network (IFAPAN), also said it is ready to align with the coalition and other political groups to effect a change in Nigeria’s political landscape in 2027.

The communique signed Jeremy Osezua of BTN, Comrade Tony Akeni of SDMA, and Okhaimon Aiyegbeni of IFAPAN, regretted that President Bola Tinubu’s preoccupation with 2027 re-election politics has overshadowed the socioeconomic issues.

“In light of Tinubu’s insensitivity to the sufferings of Nigerians the roundtable urges organisers to join forces with patriotic actors to form a broad-based coalition to rescue Nigeria from the current insensitive and experimental policies of the Tinubu administration, which have reduced Nigerians from citizens to laboratory rodents,” the group advised.

While it noted the defection of opposition members into the All Progressives Congress (APC), BTN claimed that those against Tinubu are more than those with him.

“Big Thumb and her partners stand with the people and opposition forces to recalibrate the political binary for an undeniable and historical people’s victory in 2027,” it added.

It attributed the food crisis in the country to armed conflicts, terrorism, accentuated corruption, insensitive wastage by state and non-state actors, as well as gross economic mismanagement.

“The partners note Nigeria’s largest spike in acute food insecurity worldwide in 2024, plunging 31.8 million Nigerians into near famine conundrum,” the group said.

The roundtable decried the unrelenting bloodletting in the country, blaming it on an attempt at land-grabbing by killer herdsmen and terrorists.