University Don, Dr. Frank Okafor, has blamed 95 per cent of electoral violence in Nigeria on youths.
Presenting a paper at a one day voter education in Awka, Dr Okafor of the Department of Political Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, contended that politicians who instigated the youths to indulge in the violence, should realise that their action could truncate the country’s democracy.
The workshop was organized by Women Aid Collective, WACOL, in collaboration with the Democratic Governance for Development, with funding from the European Union, EU.
Okafor observed that electoral violence had been a recurring decimal in Nigeria, saying its frequency, character and dimension were frightening, even as the 2015 general elections drew near.
According to him: “It is now becoming a national character of the Nigerian state in such a way that the country and her citizens are held hostage by this smashing political reality.
“From independence to date, electoral violence, all the violence linked to elections are mostly perpetrated by the youths, who are not only in the service of the politicians, but financed by them so long as they do their biddings.
“With the benefits of their vigour, seeming lawlessness and lackadaisical attitude to the Nigeria project, the youths are the willing ready-made weapons of politicians, who think more of their parochial interests than the development of the state and.”
Presenting a paper at a one day voter education in Awka, Dr Okafor of the Department of Political Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, contended that politicians who instigated the youths to indulge in the violence, should realise that their action could truncate the country’s democracy.
The workshop was organized by Women Aid Collective, WACOL, in collaboration with the Democratic Governance for Development, with funding from the European Union, EU.
Okafor observed that electoral violence had been a recurring decimal in Nigeria, saying its frequency, character and dimension were frightening, even as the 2015 general elections drew near.
According to him: “It is now becoming a national character of the Nigerian state in such a way that the country and her citizens are held hostage by this smashing political reality.
“From independence to date, electoral violence, all the violence linked to elections are mostly perpetrated by the youths, who are not only in the service of the politicians, but financed by them so long as they do their biddings.
“With the benefits of their vigour, seeming lawlessness and lackadaisical attitude to the Nigeria project, the youths are the willing ready-made weapons of politicians, who think more of their parochial interests than the development of the state and.”
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