Nigeria: As Emergency Rule Ends - Nyako Accuses FG of Sponsoring Violence

19 April 2014

Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, in a memorandum to the Northern Governors' Forum (NGF), has accused the federal government of being behind the Boko Haram insurgency, with plans to deny citizens of northern Nigeria their voting rights in the next general elections.

The Nyako memorandum is being made public just as the state of emergency imposed in his state and two others comes to an end. The Adamawa State governor has been vehemently opposed to the emergency rule and any extension of it.

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