How IPOB, Amotekun, Ebubeagu May Spark election violence in 2023, strong details emerge from US Institutes

  • The nation’s electoral umpire, INEC earlier maintained that Nigerians should prepare for the best general election in history
  • This is as the commission maintained that there is no going back to the transmission of results of the 2023 general elections
  • Interestingly, the two United States-based Democratic institutions have maintained that IPOB, Amotekun, Ebubeagu may spark violence in next year’s poll

Two United States-based Democratic institutions – the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) – have expressed concern about the activities of separatist groups and informal security outfits in the South-east and South-west of Nigeria, warning that they could be recipes for election violence in 2023.

An international delegation of the NDI and the IRI raised the alarm in Abuja on Friday, December 9, while presenting its second joint pre-election assessment statement on Nigeria’s approaching 2023 elections, This Day reported.