Reuters
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The US has imposed entry restrictions on extra Nigerians for undermining the democratic course of in the course of the African nation’s 2023 election cycle, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned on Monday.
“These people have been concerned in intimidation of voters by means of threats and bodily violence, the manipulation of vote outcomes, and different exercise that undermines Nigeria’s democratic course of,” Blinken mentioned in an announcement.
Further particulars weren’t supplied.
The motion is the newest in a sequence of visa restrictions imposed on Nigerian people in recent times.
Nigeria’s election tribunal this month was to start listening to opposition petitions difficult president-elect Bola Tinubu’s victory within the disputed February presidential vote, courtroom data confirmed.
Tinubu, from the ruling All Progressives Congress occasion, defeated his closest rivals Atiku Abubakar of the Folks’s Democratic Celebration and the Labour Celebration’s Peter Obi, who’ve alleged fraud and have launched a courtroom problem.
Atiku and Obi need the tribunal to invalidate Tinubu’s victory, arguing that the vote was fraught with irregularities, amongst different criticisms. Tinubu, who is ready to be sworn in on Might 29, says he gained pretty and desires the petitions dismissed.
There have been quite a few authorized challenges to the end result of earlier Nigerian presidential elections, however none has succeeded.