Catholic Bishops in the Owerri Ecclesiastical Province of Nigeria, have used their two-day prayer meeting at Umuahia Diocesan Secretariat, Abia state to say that the only hope for Nigeria, after the 2023 general elections, is for the judiciary and the INEC to rise up to the challenges of the polls and rescue the ailing democratic experiment in the country.
In their 6-point communiqué, signed by the Chairman, who is the Archbishop of Owerri Province, Most Rev. Lucius Ugorji and secretary, Most Rev. Augustine N. Echema, the Bishop of Aba Diocese, the clergymen noted that “what our people badly needed early this year was a transparent electoral process that would match their enthusiasm for a new democratic dispensation and provide renewed hope and confidence in our political process. But unfortunately this was not to be. Instead, the results of the last elections can hardly be considered as reflecting the overall will of the people; and are still being contested till date.”
