{"id":236169,"date":"2026-06-13T05:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-insecurity-may-shape-2027-elections-adeniran-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:23:07","slug":"nigeria-insecurity-may-shape-2027-elections-adeniran-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-insecurity-may-shape-2027-elections-adeniran-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Insecurity May Shape 2027 Elections, Adeniran Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><strong>Human rights activist, Mr Debo Adeniran, has warned that Nigeria&#8217;s persistent security challenges could significantly influence voter decisions in the 2027 general elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Adeniran, President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) spoke on Friday in an interview with Newsmen in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">He said many Nigerians remained concerned about insecurity across the country, despite ongoing efforts by government and security agencies to curb criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120390.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activist, Mr Debo Adeniran, has warned that Nigeria&#8217;s persistent security challenges could significantly influence voter decisions in the 2027 general elections. Adeniran, President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) spoke on Friday in an interview with Newsmen in Lagos. He said many Nigerians remained concerned about insecurity across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[9924,258,256,821,2134,257,4687,393,14777,254,6853],"class_list":["post-236169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adeniran","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elections","tag-insecurity","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-shape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}