Insecurity: 2023 Elections Might Be Threatened, Akeredolu Warns FG

• Governor Ortom also visited President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday and warned that there might not be elections in 2023 if the security situation in the country continues to worsen

Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has asked the Federal Government to tackle the worsening insecurity in the country.

Akeredolu warned that the 2023 general elections might be threatened if the insecurity situation worsens.

He also condemned Saturday’s attack on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, wondering why governors would be the target of attack.

While describing the attack as unfortunate, Akeredolu who is also the Chairman of South-West Governors Forum, thanked God for the life of Governor Ortom.

Read also: There Will Be No Elections In 2023 If Insecurity Persists – Ortom

Governor Akeredolu also backed Ortom’s remarks, noting that Nigerians should be worried if banditry activities reach its full-scale.

“I think he is right, definitely we cannot conduct election under an insecure environment. So if insecurity is not nipped in the bud, it will escalate and if it escalates, all of us should be worried that as at the time we are getting to 2023, we might have a full-scale banditry and other insecurity in the country.

“With that, there is nobody that can carry out any election under that atmosphere. What is clear is that he has made a good point that the Federal Government must sit up.

“Something just has to be done now to ensure that this issue of insecurity that is escalating by the day is now nipped in the bud and deescalated as soon as possible,” he told Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday.

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