The killing of Senate candidate Oyibo Chukwu, along with a spate of other attacks, has contributed to the fear that Saturday’s election could be tainted by bloodshed
The deadly ambush of a Nigerian opposition candidate has stoked fears that violence across the country could influence the outcome of Saturday’s closely watched election, where a third-party candidate is mounting an unexpected challenge to the dominance of Nigeria’s two largest parties., as he travelled back from a campaign event on Wednesday night. The gunmen then set fire to his car. Mr.
“There is huge political violence,” said Idayat Hassan, director of Nigeria’s Centre for Democracy and Development, in a recent online briefing. But on Thursday the political attacks continued. In the northern city of Kano, a mob armed with machetes and clubs assaulted supporters of presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso, who is running fourth in most opinion polls. They injured several people and set cars ablaze. Police officials, fearing further violence, called an emergency meeting with the major political parties and ordered them to cancel their planned political rallies in Kano on Thursday.
He noted the insurgencies in the northeast, banditry in the northwest and a sharp increase in violence in the southeast. “It’s very difficult to see how elections will run smoothly in those areas and what the turnout will be,” he told a briefing on Thursday. The statement – issued by the diplomatic missions of Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia and Norway – called on all political parties to “take a firm stand against violence and hate speech by their supporters.”
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