Nigerians React Over Buhari’s Death Penalty For Ballot Snatchers

Politicians, human rights activists, lawyers and prominent Nigerians on Monday attacked President Muhammadu Buhari for declaring that death awaited ballot box snatchers during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. Punch reports that President Buhari had early on Monday while speaking at a national caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja, said ballot box snatchers would pay with their lives as security agencies had been given the go ahead to be ruthless with them. The statement credited to the president has however generated outrage by well-meaning Nigerians. Read below some reactions as compiled by the Punch Newspaper.

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