Nigeria: Polls - Again, IGP, Political Parties Differ Over 'Vote and Go' Advice

25 March 2015

As preparations for Saturday's presidential and National Assembly elections enter final phase, the inspector-general of police, Suleman Abba, and political parties yesterday differed over whether voters should leave voting centres immediately after casting their ballots.

While the IGP called on political parties to educate and instruct their supporters to obey the advice - arguing that the vote-and-wait plan is susceptible to exploitation for violence, the political parties countered that during the 2011 elections, voters waited after casting their votes and there was no chaos.

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