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There's violence every election season in Nigeria: what can be done to stop it

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par Samuel Oyewole, Lecturer, Political Science, Federal University, Oye Ekiti

Violence is one of the recurrent features of Nigeria’s electoral history and democratic journey since independence in 1960. The country invariably sees an escalation of violence in the period before, during and after elections.

The country’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, has already begun to raise the alarm ahead of a poll scheduled for February…

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