The United States diplomatic mission
Nigeria has on Tuesday, November 10, warned Nigerians against every form of
violent approach in the forthcoming governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa
states.
The Independent National Electoral
Commission will be conducting the gubernatorial elections stated for November
21 and December 5 in Kogi and Bayelsa respectively.
The US mission through its Abuja
public affairs section in a press release dated November 10, 2015, with
reference number PR-046/2015, said: “As Kogi and Bayelsa states
prepare to conduct important gubernatorial elections, the United States calls
upon all Nigerians to refrain from advocating, fomenting, or condoning violence
before, during, or after the elections.
The mission also warned political parties, elected leaders, and the various candidates for the number political seat in the state stressing that they all have a special obligation to uphold these democratic precepts.
The mission reiterated that the United States remains committed to working with Nigeria to strengthen its democratic institutions in the years to come.
Meanwhile, ahead of the governorship election and a bid to provide security in the forthcoming poll in Kogi state, the state police command on Monday, November 9, nabbed some boys suspected to be political thugs being secretly trained to disrupt the much awaited election.
In line with the polls, the Kogi state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party was reported to have recently commended President Muhammadu Buhari for distancing himself from the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Abubakar Audu.
While in Bayelsa, the December 5 governorship election has continued to generate more heated confrontations between the two leading parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) as about 1000 youths were said to have decamped from the APC to the PDP in the state.
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