According to the group, the growing number of internally displaced persons and the inability of farmers to access their farmlands pose a severe threat to food security and national economic survival.
Nigerian socio-political group, The Patriots, has raised fresh concerns over worsening insecurity, mass poverty and what it described as the failure of the country’s current constitutional structure, warning that the crises threatening Nigeria’s stability require urgent national action ahead of the 2027 general elections.
In a communiqué issued after its meeting in Lagos on Thursday, the group, led by former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Emeka Anyaoku, said Nigeria was facing a dangerous combination of insecurity, economic hardship and political dysfunction capable of undermining national cohesion if not decisively addressed.
The communiqué, signed by Anyaoku as Chairman and veteran activist Olawale Okunniyi as Secretary-General, stated that The Patriots remained a non-partisan body committed to “the entrenchment of one country that is governed by its democratic people’s constitution.”
The group lamented what it described as “unabated killings, kidnappings and the sacking by bandits of communities from their homes and ancestral lands” across several regions of the country, particularly the North-East, North-West, North-Central and parts of the South-West.
