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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, has asked United States President Joe Biden to ban Nigerian officials, politicians and other perpetrators and sponsors of violence during the general elections, in line with the Global Mag/nitski Human Rights Accountability Act.
Oluwadare in a statement noted that the imposition of targeted sanctions against suspected perpetrators of election-related violence in Nigeria would promote accountability, end impunity, and deter human rights violations.
At the polls on Saturday, there were reports of violence in some states with cases of election-related intimidation, harassment, and violence. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the presidential and national assembly elections in 141 polling units in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State due to incidents of election-related intimidation, harassment, and violence.