On social media such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and so on, we read a lot of hate speeches. He also identified inadequate voters education, failure of the justice system, unemployment, corruption, lack of internal democracy in political parties as causes of electoral violence in the county. Bishop Dachelem also warned that inadequate security, poverty, lack of democratic culture, lack of integrity from electoral umpire were also fertile grounds for electoral violence. Sadiq Abdullahi further explained that the essence of the public lecture was to create more awareness on the negative consequences of electoral violence on the gains of democracy, lamenting that politicians used youth to foment violence. The one-day public lecture was attended by various Islamic groups mainly youths who are often the tools used by politicians to perpetrate violence before, during and after elections.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 10, 2019 16:30 UTC