Despite recent attacks on voting centers, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed confidence that the 2023 general elections will be free and fair.
“I am resolute in my determination to enable the conduct of free, fair and transparent national elections in the first quarter of 2023, whose outcome would be largely accepted to the contestants,” Buhari said while speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington.
In an attack, this week on INEC’s main office in Owerri, the capital of Imo state, three gunmen were killed in the wake of other attacks in the unrest-plagued area.
According to Buhari, there has only been a small amount of violence, and he is dedicated to making sure that funding for election offices is sufficient.
Buhari is leaving office after serving two terms. In the most populous nation in Africa, he became president in 2015 after peacefully ousting an incumbent from a rival party.
President Joe Biden, who has pledged a renewed effort to preserve democracy on the continent, invited Buhari to Washington for a three-day summit of African leaders.
In order to advocate for free and fair elections, Biden met with Buhari and the leaders of five other nations that will hold elections next year.
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