Tag: Voter suppression

Analysis: Violence, voter suppression and apathy taint Nigeria’s governorship and state assembly elections

Mar 18, 2023

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by

Oghenekevwe Uchechukwu

in Politics, Top Story

There were cases of violence and voter suppression reported across several states on Saturday March 18, as Nigeria held its Governorship and State House of Assembly elections nationwide. States such as Benue, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Imo, Kaduna, Kano, Ogun and Lagos, experienced varying degrees of viciousness against voters, observers and journalists. In Imo state for…