At least eight people died in Nigeria after violence erupted over destroyed voting materials
An electoral commission official count ballots papers after the gubernatorial election in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday March. 9, 2019.
One domestic election observer, YIAGA Africa, late Saturday asserted that military officers had barred accredited observers and party agents from at least nine vote compilation centres in the southern states of Rivers and Akwa Ibom and bandit-plagued northwestern Zamfara state.
Vote-buying for as little as 100 naira and a bar of soap was reported by election observers in northern Kano state, while observers and officials elsewhere noted scattered incidents of thuggery and ballot-snatching.
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