“In the last four weeks, 11 offices of the commission were either set ablaze or vandalized.
“Two of these incidents were caused by Boko Haram and bandits’ attacks while 10 resulted from thuggery during the election and post-election violence,” Yakubu said.
He, however, said that the majority of the attacks, being 29 out of the 41, were unrelated to election or electoral activities.
He added that 18 of them occurred during the #EndSARS protests in October 2020 while 11 attacks were organised by “unknown gunmen” and “hoodlums”.
The ICCES emergency meeting, which was originally scheduled for last Monday, was rescheduled after the death of the former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, who was a member of the ICCES.
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