A total of 137 persons were killed, and 57 abducted during the 2023 general elections, a report by the Incident Centre for Election Atrocities, ICEA has shown.
The report entitled: “Ethnic Profiling, Hate Speech and Endemic Violence: A Preliminary Post-Election Statement on the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria” obtained by Saturday Vanguard in Abuja, said the most prominent forms of atrocities noted through the electioneering process were the weaponization of voter suppression through violence, hate speech, fake news and ethnic bigotry.
However, the Community of Practice Against Mass Atrocities in Nigeria, deployed an Incident Centre for Election Atrocities (ICEA) to track election-related atrocities, after the governorship and state-level elections. The Centre had tracked atrocities across 10 states including Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Ondo, Ekiti, Lagos Katsina and the FCT.
The Centre also worked with local partners in other contiguous states such as Rivers, Edo, Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara, Taraba, Ogun, Nasarawa, Benue and Plateau due to the heightened threats of large-scale hate and violence in the run-up to the 2023 general elections.
