No one could have imagined forty-six years ago that our security challenges would become so grave to this level, that we now live in perpetual fear at the mercy of terrorists, kidnappers, Boko Haram, ISWAP, political thugs, armed robbers and the rest.
Browsing: Political thugs
INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Tella Adeniran, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, said the commission suspended the poll following the violence unleashed on voters and officials of the electoral body by political thugs.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
The Acting State Chairman of the PDP, Rabiu Sulaiman-Bichi, had in a news conference alleged that the ruling APC in the state had imported thugs from some neighbouring states.
Some eligible voters in Lagos State may shun the March 9, 2019 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections due to fear of attack by thugs, the News Agency of Nigeria is reporting
A section of the Independent National Electoral Commission Office in Ijebu-Ijesha, Oriade Local Government in Osun State has been gutted by fire.
The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom, Bashir Makama, has accused politicians of sponsoring thugs to distort the peace and security of the state during this year’s general elections.
President Muhammadu Buhari has saidthat any politician that decides to sponsor political thugs to cause trouble or to snatch ballot boxes in the rescheduled elections will be doing so at great risk.
The Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, on Friday said that members of the union would not be used as political thugs in the 2019 general elections.
Bala Senchi, the Police Commissioner in the state, disclosed this while parading the suspects on Saturday in Dutse.
Popular Catholic religious group, the Knight of Saint Mulumba Nigeria, has advised all registered voters to reject the lure of selling and buying of their votes by selfish politicians as doing so will be tantamount to mortgaging their destinies and those of their children.
The Nigerian Army has warned that it will deal decisively with political thugs, kidnappers and other criminal elements caught with weapons during the 2019 general elections.
An eyewitness said: “The boy was just going to buy food across the road that night when some of these political thugs, from nowhere, entered the streets and started shooting