Nigerian Election: Attack on Anambra’s electoral office less than a month to election

Poll workers in elections in Nigeria

Nigeria’s electoral body says nearly 800 ballot boxes and over 200 voting cubicles have been destroyed. The attack, which happened in one of its offices in Anambra state, comes less than a month to the country’s general elections, first reported by Chris Ewokor for BBC News

With one killed and another injured during the attack early Wednesday, police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga told journalists that the group also attacked a police station and a residential building located within the same vicinity.

This has added to a string of attacks in an area that is being overrun by what is being called a separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra. Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has been warned by the European Union stating elections may not be held in some parts of the country due to a “hostile security climate".

The commission is however sticking to its guns saying it will be prepared and there will be no delays to the elections. It is left to be seen how this will be handled going forward.