Nigeria’s upcoming election is threatened by violence and insecurity.

Nigeria’s upcoming election is threatened because of the nation’s insecurity as citizens get ready to choose a new president and lawmakers on February 25. Bandits killing people and burning buildings on fire, widespread livestock rustling, and widespread kidnappings for ransom are problems.

Organizing voting is a challenging chore for Saidu Ahmad, an election officer in the northwest Zamfara state, as 606 polling locations servicing 287,373 voters have been deemed “not reachable.”

Some communities ask local officials or business owners to employ trucks to transport voters to more secure polling places. Violence runs the potential of undermining the validity of the election and its ability to take place in the regions most affected by insecurity.

Retired Major General Muhammed Buhari was chosen to be the new president of Nigeria in a free election that was deemed to be the nation’s fairest to date.

Many people had hoped that he would deal harshly with armed organizations, as he had done when he served as the nation’s military head of state in the early 1980s.

As a result, thousands of farmers have been forced to abandon their crops amid a food crisis as violence has instead moved beyond Nigeria’s northeast, putting broad regions of the country under the control of its overstretched security forces.

Threatening to murder voters in the regions they control, militants driving a 13-year-old Islamic insurgency in the northeast. In the northwest, large-scale banditry and kidnapping have forced thousands of people out of their polling districts.

Since the most recent election in 2019, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reported that at least 50 attacks on its personnel and facilities have taken place, mostly in the rebellious southeast where armed gangs with political ties, oil thieves, pirates, and secessionist militants operate.

Although none of the three contenders has provided many specifics, they have all pledged to combat insecurity with additional troops and better technology. Both Abubakar and Obi have promoted communication with militant organizations.

Obi is ahead in at least three polls, although the outcome may be influenced by voter turnout. The most recent Stears poll had Tinubu winning if turnout was low but had Obi leading.