{"id":2962,"date":"2022-10-19T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:47:39","slug":"insecurity-electoral-violence-escalates-amid-political-party-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/insecurity-electoral-violence-escalates-amid-political-party-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity, Electoral Violence Escalates Amid Political Party Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reports of violent attacks at political party rallies and general insecurity raise concern as campaigns intensify ahead of the 2023 general elections. The Zamfara State Government on Friday, 14<sup>th<\/sup> October 2022 announced the suspension of political activities indefinitely due to the resurgence of insecurity in the State, particularly banditry and killing of people in different parts of the State. However, a rally was held by the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) in the Gusau, the State capital on Saturday, 15<sup>th<\/sup> October 2022, against the government\u2019s ban and was characterised by violence, as supporters of the party and those of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) were said to have clashed. This resulted in the death of one person while 18 others sustained injuries. Similarly, on Monday, 17<sup>th<\/sup> October 2022, thugs were reported to have invaded the venue of the PDP presidential campaign rally in Kaduna State with weapons and attacked the party\u2019s supporters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insecurity in different parts of\nthe country has escalated in recent time. With the 2023 general elections\napproaching, the state of insecurity coupled with electoral violence constitute\nthreats to the peaceful conduct of the upcoming elections and therefore require\nurgent attention. Political parties and their candidates need to call their\nsupporters to order,&nbsp; refrain from smear\ncampaigns against other candidates, inciteful campaign based on religious and ethnic\nsentiments, and focus instead on issue-based campaign. It is also important to\nnote that acts of electoral violence constitute electoral offences punishable\nunder the Electoral Act 2022, and other laws in force in Nigeria. Therefore,\nsecurity agencies should be on alert in the period leading up to the elections\nin order to ensure public safety, and a peaceful atmosphere for citizens to\nengage in the electoral process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of violent attacks at political party rallies and general insecurity raise concern as campaigns intensify ahead of the 2023 general elections. The Zamfara State Government on Friday, 14th October 2022 announced the suspension of political activities indefinitely due to the resurgence of insecurity in the State, particularly banditry and killing of people in different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}