Foremost election observation group in Nigeria, The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has indicated some high ranking Nigerian politicians in its report on the monitoring of the March 18th Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the country.
A copy of the TMG report, signed by its Chairman, Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), noted that suppression of voters, violence, vote trading, padding among others marred the polls.
According to the group, in the build up to the elections, there were reports of voters’ suppression and intimidation with threats of consequences as issued by well-known loyalists of some highly ranked politicians in the country.
Rafsanjani said the failure of the security operatives to apprehend and prosecute issuant of such threats, emboldened them to unleash mayhem on citizens on election day.
