The SOS Children’s Villages, an international non-governmental organisation, in collaboration with European Union, has called for a peaceful conduct of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.

Eghosa Erhumwunse, the national director of SOS Children’s Villages Nigeria, made the appeal on Tuesday at a community sensitisation for people in the Akinyele local government area, Ibadan.

Mr Erhumwunse said the forum aimed to foster a functional, inclusive, participatory democracy in Nigeria through a peaceful electoral process.

“If our electioneering process is not peaceful, we can not have the development we desire. We want the participants to take the message of the need to conduct a peaceful election in Nigeria to the grassroots,” he said.

Catherine Ogwu, the gender desk officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission, said INEC was fully prepared to deliver credible elections.

Michael Adaralewa, the NSCDC, commandant in Oyo, said the civil defence would collaborate with other sister security agencies to ensure credible elections.

(NAN)