{"id":223038,"date":"2026-02-06T23:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-elections-nsa-warns-political-actors-against-violence-vote-buying\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:58:20","slug":"nigeria-elections-nsa-warns-political-actors-against-violence-vote-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-elections-nsa-warns-political-actors-against-violence-vote-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Elections &#8211; NSA Warns Political Actors Against Violence, Vote-Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The NSA said adequate security personnel will be deployed to polling stations and high-risk electoral wards in FCT, Rivers and Kano State during the forthcoming elections this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, has warned political actors with violent dispositions and vote buyers against such acts in the forthcoming Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council election and the by-elections in Rivers and Kano states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Mr Ribadu gave the warning during the Inter-Agency&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060491.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSA said adequate security personnel will be deployed to polling stations and high-risk electoral wards in FCT, Rivers and Kano State during the forthcoming elections this year. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, has warned political actors with violent dispositions and vote buyers against such acts in the forthcoming Federal Capital Territory (FCT) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[11890,258,256,821,257,4687,393,8876,6378,254,2148,45560,6853],"class_list":["post-223038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-actors","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elections","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nsa","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence","tag-votebuying","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}