Bayelsa/Kogi polls: Nigerian Situation Room decries level of violence

Bayelsa/Kogi polls: Nigerian Situation Room decries level of violence

Seeks passage of Electoral Offences Commission law

Says electorates were paid N500 to N6000 to vote

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, on Sunday, decried what it termed as unprecedented level of violence witnessed in the just concluded governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States, even as it called for urgent passage of the Electoral Offences Commission law.

The Situation Room which is a coalition of over 70 CSOs in the country that deployed observers to the two states, in a statement, it made available to newsmen in Abuja, maintained that the elections represented a major setback for Nigeria’s electoral democracy.

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