Probe Borno commissioner for threatening voters, opposition supporters — Amnesty tells security forces

Amnesty International has called for an contiguous and thorough probe into a viral video allegedly showing the Borno State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Sainna Buba, threatening governmental opponents and supporters of absorption parties.

The rights organisation said the commissioner’s alleged remarks that those who refused to enactment his governmental enactment would beryllium “flogged” were unlawful and unacceptable successful a antiauthoritarian society.

In a connection posted connected its verified Facebook account, Amnesty International said authorities indispensable analyse the connection and guarantee that those liable for threats against governmental opponents bash not bask impunity.

The organisation described the reported comments, allegedly made connected August 29, 2026, arsenic “reckless and irresponsible,” stressing that citizens should not beryllium punished for their governmental choices.

“In democracy, radical are not punished for their governmental choices.”

Amnesty said the alleged statement  violated the rights of Nigerians to freely take and enactment governmental parties, noting that specified rights are protected by Nigeria’s Constitution, the Electoral Act and planetary law.

The organisation besides warned that governmental tensions were already rising up of the 2027 wide elections, with threats and intimidation against opp...