Amnesty slams Kuje Chairman over alleged threat to non-APC voters

Rights group, Amnesty International Nigeria, has criticised the Chairman of Kuje Area Council successful the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Samuel Danjuma Shekwolo, implicit remarks allegedly threatening residents who garbage to enactment oregon ballot for the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The condemnation followed the circulation of a video successful which Shekwolo was heard declaring that residents of the assembly indispensable either enactment the APC oregon permission the area.

The president reportedly insisted that helium would not tolerate absorption to the ruling enactment oregon President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid up of the 2027 wide elections.

Reacting, Amnesty International described the connection arsenic a nonstop onslaught connected citizens’ cardinal rights, informing that nary Nigerian should beryllium forced to enactment a governmental enactment arsenic a information for surviving successful immoderate portion of the country.

The rights radical said: “Authoritatively saying those who volition not ballot for the APC indispensable permission the Kuje Area Council is simply a telephone to unit and nonstop onslaught connected state of relation and liberty of persons.”

Amnesty further urged the Nigeria Police Force and different information agencies to intervene instantly and forestall immoderate effort to intimidate residents implicit their governmental choices. The organisation maintained that each Nigerian has the law close to freely subordinate ...