Sentences with phrase «electoral violence»

The fact of the matter is electoral violence before and during elections threatens the individual's right to vote, which is valued both as an opportunity to affect the outcome of specific elections.

«The Command wishes to call on all Bayelsans to shun any act of electoral violence in whatever form as any infraction of the law will be dealt with decisively by the Police» he said.

This is part of its new strategy to engage in an effective and efficient political activity monitoring to quell electoral violence in the upcoming general election.

In a statement issued on 28 October - the day campaigns officially started - 41 international and domestic NGOs called for urgent measures to prevent electoral violence, better protect civilians and ensure credible, free and fair elections.

Voters are more likely to support democracy and accept the outcome of democratic elections — which is important if electoral violence is to be avoided — if they trust that people like them will not be excluded from political and economic opportunities just because their candidate lost.

Needless to say, Buhari never accepted defeat nor congratulated anyone who defeated him in an election but was indirectly associated with post electoral violence.

The Northern Region Election Early Warning And Response Group (REEWARG) has predicted imminent electoral violence connected to the youth of Northern Region leading to the December 7 polls.

He entreated the leadership of the various political parties to advice their supporters to be law - abiding and desist from any form of electoral violence since anyone found culpable would have a «brush with the law.»

It regretted that «the current electoral violence being experienced in country ahead of 2019 general elections is a negation of the democratic atmosphere the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) inherited in 2015, which made it possible for an opposition party to win the presidential election.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa on Tuesday called on the Presidency to investigate reported electoral violence and punish perpetrators to protect the country's democracy.

Discussions of Electoral Commissions affirmed the need for their neutrality and for substantial police support to expel electoral violence.

Although many might think that the disintegration of Narc was less important than the periods of electoral violence, it had a profound effect on public attitudes towards elections and their leaders.

Bearing in mind Ghana's history of political stability and peaceful elections, the Secretary - General underscored the need for all political parties to sign a Code of Conduct, which will greatly assist in lowering tensions and preventing electoral violence.

The Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Charlotte Osei, has expressed her view that effective communications and stakeholder engagements among others are the solutions to electoral violence in Africa.

This act should awaken all Ghanaians to the reality that electoral violence is possible in our country.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on Tuesday in Jos, began public hearing on hate speeches and electoral violence, witnessed during and after the...

According to the Collation Officer, Mr. Perekeme Bertola, a lecturer at the Niger Delta University, NDU, results from six polling units at Asamabiri were cancelled due to alleged malfunctioning card reader and electoral violence.

«Hate speeches and electoral violence have become more frequent in the past because there was no political will to hold the perpetrators accountable.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on Tuesday in Jos, began public hearing on hate speeches and electoral violence, witnessed during and after the 2015 general elections in North - Central states.

In ending, I would like to challenge the lunatic fringe of politicians and their teeming supporters to refrain from Machiavellianism, before, during and after the general elections, because Ghanaians do not wish to experience the apocalypse of electoral violence.

What's more, the lunatic fringe of politicians and their apple - polishers should note that the fact that they are seeking power, or are aiming to cling onto power, does not give them an audacity to engage in electoral violence, before, during and after the 2016 general elections.

He stated that perpetrators of electoral violence should be made to face the full weight of the law.

But he didn't reckon with a judicial lobby unfazed at putting the law at the service of electoral violence, thereby reinforcing murderous electoral conduct.

-- Previous fraud claims — As counting got under way, the candidates were urged to keep supporters calm to avoid the electoral violence that has hit Liberia in previous years.

He also discounted claims that the police have failed to arrest and prosecute all suspects linked to electoral violence.

This training also seeks to support the FOISECON in order to build their capacity to conduct free and credible elections at the local government levels and how well - implemented electoral process can bring about peaceful change of power and improve their leadership skills and take on board means for preventing or mitigating the escalation of electoral violence and conflict throughout the respective electoral cycle.

Earlier the Electoral Commission raised red flags over the volatility of Ghana's electoral atmosphere citing the proliferation of small unlicensed arms among Ghanaians, and joblessness among the youth as some triggers that could lead to electoral violence.

She reminded the electorates that electoral violence was an anathema to peaceful co-existence, and that it militates against the consolidation of democracy as well as retards development and progress of the state.

Alluding to violence that characterised the Governorship election, Ikanya said: «We call on our members across Rivers State, especially those who lost their loved ones before, during and after the 2015 electoral violence that the justice we sought to put a closure to their pains and losses, though denied us by man, will still be granted by the ultimate judge, God Himself.

He also urged the two to sign «a Code of Conduct which will greatly assist in lowering tensions and preventing electoral violence.»

In their mutually reinforcing recommendations, the two committees strongly advocated the establishment of Electoral Offences Commission / Tribunal for the enforcement of laws, to address all forms of electoral offences and consequently stem the incidence of electoral violence that has undermined the stability and progress of Nigeria's electoral democracy.

This literature review seeks to highlight specific policy interventions against risk factors that predispose communities towards gangs, organized crime, and electoral violence; and interventions that attack each of those types of violence directly.