Elections Violence in Nigeria: When Data and Perceptions Fail to Add Up (Part 2)

Although Nigeria’s 2023 general elections have birthed a new crop of political office holders and returned some others, it has not obscured the issues that heralded the exercise. The 2023 polls were markedly different from the previous ones in terms of voter registration, turnout, election security and post-election reactions. While no two elections are the same, similar realities may exist but differ in scale and depth. In part 1 of this series, Election Violence in Nigeria: When Data and Perceptions Fail to Add Up, efforts were made to juxtapose the 2019 and 2023 elections’ violence data to conclude how peaceful both exercises were.

In this edition of the Nextier SPD Policy Weekly and part 2 of the series, Nextier examines the dynamics in the 2019 and 2023 general elections and how they may have impacted election security

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