USA hotar med sanktioner vid uppmaning till våld
USA hotar med sanktioner mot nigerianska politiker som försöker påverka den demokratiska processen eller anstifta till våld i samband med presidentvalet i februari. Det rapporterar nigerianska The Guardian.
Enligt Rolf Olson, politisk rådgivare på USA:s ambassad i landet, skulle det bland annat kunna bli aktuellt med visumbegränsningar.
Framför allt är det i nordvästra Nigeria som beväpnade gäng kan hindra människor att rösta och stoppa vallokalsarbetare från att genomföra sitt jobb, skriver AFP. Experter menar att valdeltagandet kan bli lågt i dessa områden, vilket kan påverka om valresultatet accepteras.
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Presidentvalet i Nigeria 2022
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The 2023 Nigerian presidential election will be held on 25 February 2023 to elect the president and vice president of Nigeria. Incumbent APC President Muhammadu Buhari is term-limited and cannot seek re-election for a third term.
Other federal elections, including elections to the House of Representatives and the Senate, will also be held on the same date while state elections will be held two weeks afterward on 11 March. The winners of the election will be inaugurated on 29 May 2023, the former date of Democracy Day.
Party primaries were scheduled for between 4 April and 9 June 2022 with the Peoples Democratic Party nominating former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on 28 May while the All Progressives Congress nominated former Governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu on 8 June. For the less politically represented Labour Party and New Nigeria Peoples Party, former Governor of Anambra State Peter Obi was nominated on 30 May and former Governor of Kano State Rabiu Kwankwaso was nominated on 8 June, respectively. In the weeks after the primaries, vice presidential running mates were announced with Abubakar choosing Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on 16 June while his main opponents initially picked placeholder running mates before later substituting in substantive nominees. Obi selected former Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed on 8 July, Tinubu picked Senator Kashim Shettima on 10 July, and Kwankwaso chose pastor Isaac Idahosa on 14 July.
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