Ahead of the 2019 elections, Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, has urged the international community to respect Nigeria's sovereignty


Onyeama said that Nigeria, being a sovereign nation, would not allow herself to be dictated toThe minister added that the international community would do better if it remained impartial and did not give the impression that it had a preferred candidate in the election

Minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has urged the international community to respect the sovereignty of Nigeria and allow her solve internal challenges without interference.

Onyeama said this while addressing a cross section of the heads of diplomatic missions and international election monitoring groups in Nigeria on the conduct of the 2019 General Elections, NAN reports.

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Legit.ng gathers that the gathering, organised by the ministry in conjunction with the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), aims at engaging with friends and partners of Nigeria on the conduct of the re-scheduled elections.

Onyeama stressed that Nigeria welcomed partnership and support from the international community.He, however, said that the country, being a sovereign nation, would not allow herself to be dictated to, since it would not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

“We welcome very much your engagement, we appreciate your support. We acknowledge how important your engagement for us in 2015 helped us to deliver probably one of the most free and credible elections we have had in this country for a very long time.


“However, we have cause to be concerned with the way the engagement has been communicated, because at the end of the day, we are a sovereign country.

“The line should not be crossed from exalting us and wanting this to succeed and really be a democratic process; to dictating to us and getting to the nitty-gritty of how we run the country.

“We have heard all kinds of conspiracy theories; that is why we deem it necessary to hold this kind of interaction with you. I had cause to meet with some of you to discuss the general narrative.

“As members of the diplomatic community and international election observers, we welcome very much, your engagement," he said.

Onyeama said that the international community would do better if it remained impartial and did not give the impression that it had a preferred candidate in the election.

This development follows a previous report by Legit.ng that the governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, said any “foreign power” that tries to intervene in the forthcoming general elections would go back to their country in body bags.

The governor also said the country will never be dominated by any foreign influence.He said: “Those that are calling for anyone to come and intervene in Nigeria, we are waiting for the person that would come and intervene, they would go back in body bags."

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Respect the wish of the people, nigerians tell fg

A country that depends on other nations for the air it breaths is talking about sovereignty.

it has been repeatedly confirmed from different oracles in Edo state to oshiomohle that buhari cannot win a free and Fair election. hence the panic. tinubu will be surprise what will happen in Lagos and Kano. all these have been revealed to them already and that's why they are afraid to conduct the election.

Plsss, I beg of you all. Esp the bubu supporters, plss vote this plague out,vote off this famine. Remember, last last u will still feel the crunch. Have we not all suffered enough? Don't we go to the same market? Don't we see our own family, friends and neighbours suffer thus? Abi, is there an award for suffering?

These guys are just bloody hypocrites. They think we have forgotten the role the US and UK played in imposing this clueless and visionless administration on Nigerians.

So after selling away Nigeria's sovereignty with international borrow-borrow, you want international community to you respect your sovereignty?




Buhari is a joke I swear, he thinks he can eat his cake and still have it

Buhari is an unapologetic coupists.

How some Nigerians expected him to be a democrat shows an average Nigerian have very very low IQ.

When Obama and his secretary of state interfered in Nigeria 2015 elections in favour of apc was Nigeria not a sovereign nation.

Apc is drowning and the international community will only be laughing at them.

Why but you will import two governors from Niger?

mycar:
Why but you will import two governors from Niger?

It is after the importation of 2 Nigerien governors that Nigeria became a sovereign nation

Obama will be filled with shame now