The former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has stated that he would welcome intervention by the international community in Nigeria\u2019s 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n
Speaking during an appearance on Arise Television on Monday, he asserted that international engagement played a significant role in the 2015 general election, contributing to the victory of the then-opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) over incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n
Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Tambuwal was a member of the APC during the 2015 election but is currently a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), despite aligning with the coalition-backed ADC.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom even our recent history, the intervention of the international community shaped the election of 2015, which the APC benefited from. So, I expect similar intervention from the international community<\/em>,\u201d he said when asked whether he would support diplomatic pressure on the government to ensure free and fair elections in 2027.<\/p>\n He emphasised that foreign engagement was not the only pathway to credible polls, but rather one of several options.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not the only way, but it\u2019s one of those ways,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n Tambuwal added that he was not referring to any specific country but to democratic nations acting collectively.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not particular about the United States. I\u2019m talking about democratic countries and the international community making sure, without direct interference, that elections are free, credible and fair,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has stated that he would welcome intervention by the international community in Nigeria\u2019s 2027 general elections. Speaking during an appearance on Arise Television on Monday, he asserted that international engagement played a significant role in the 2015 general election, contributing to the victory of the then-opposition All […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[186,1906],"class_list":["post-239197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2027-election","tag-aminu-tambuwal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Aminu-Tambuwal-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}