At least 50 attacks against staff and facilities of the electoral commission have been recorded between 2019 election and end of 2022
Electoral commission staff assess damage on 10 November 2022 at the Inec office destroyed by assailants in Abeokuta, Nigeria.Electoral commission staff assess damage on 10 November 2022 at the Inec office destroyed by assailants in Abeokuta, Nigeria.Routine violence in south-eastincluding attacks on the offices of the electoral commission threatens to derail next month’s presidential elections, experts have said.
In south-east Nigeria, scores of assaults have been blamed on the Ipob group or its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network . More than 100 police and other security personnel have been killed since the beginning of 2021 in targeted attacks, according to tallies by local media. “You cannot even mention the election,” said a lawyer from the south-east who requested anonymity out of concerns for her safety. The lawyer said that when she mentioned to her mother that she had taken a long round trip to pick up her voting card, her mother replied that it was “not something you want other ears to hear because you don’t know who is who”.
“Ipob has become so fractured that it’s difficult to speak of it as a coherent movement any more – and a lot of criminals or political thugs seem to be using Ipob as a cover for their activities,” Barnett said.
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