Osun Guber: NUJ condemns escalating political violence ahead of governorship election campaigns

The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Osun State Council, has condemned the rising question of governmental unit ahead of the August 15, 2026 governorship election.

The national besides warned that the inclination poses a superior menace to peace, nationalist information and the antiauthoritarian process.

The Council expressed interest implicit expanding reports of killings, intimidation and demolition of spot linked to governmental activities, saying the concern could undermine the credibility of the predetermination if urgent steps were not taken to curb the violence.

In a connection jointly signed by the Osun NUJ Chairman, Adeyemi Aboderin, and the Secretary, Olalekan Akindoju, the national cited a study by the Kimpact Development Initiative, KDI, which recorded 44 election-related convulsive incidents crossed the authorities betwixt October 2025 and June 2026.

According to the statement, the incidents reportedly resulted successful the deaths of 13 people, a improvement the Council described arsenic alarming and requiring contiguous involution by each stakeholders.

“The figures should service arsenic a wake-up telephone to each stakeholders. No governmental ambition is worthy the nonaccomplishment of quality lives,” the connection said.

The Council called connected information agencies to intensify efforts to forestall further unit by protecting lives and property, maintaining professionalism and impartial...