URGENT CALL ON NIGERIA’S LEADERS TO EMBARK ON ENLIGHTENMENT AND MOBILISATION OF THE COUNTRY’S CITIZENS ABOUT ELECTORAL VIOLENCE.

Electoral violence is the violation of the legal framework, offensive or indecent words, murders, injury between rival supporters and intimidation of opponents, voters, or electoral officials.

Human Rights Watch and Youth Empowerment President has categorically stated that, there can be no democratic election, conjugation of democracy, growth in democratic culture or embodiment of best democratic practice in any country if electoral violence is widely circulated.

Moreover, Human Rights Watch and Youth Empowerment President further stated that, no peaceful, healthy, free and fair election can take place without first sanctifying the electoral process and the country of such bedevil of violence.

Violence hampers people’s participation in the electoral process and allows the imposition of candidates, programmes, and policies, which, in the long run, bring about violent reactions from losers and the electorate.

Elections play a very vital role in the life of a nation.

It is one fundamental way by which citizens choose their leaders, and by so doing, contribute meaningfully to the identification of the kind of development they would like to see.

Despite the important position occupied by elections in democracies and the need for healthy, peaceful, free and fair elections for a stable society and sustainable democracy, elections in Nigeria have been characterized by lots of violence