ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s electoral commission has suspended the senatorial election in southeastern Enugu, where the opposition Labour Party candidate was killed, the commission’s chairman Mahmood Yakubu said on Friday.
One opposition party candidate and the driver of a campaign minibus belonging to another party were killed in a series of coordinated attacks in Enugu State on Thursday ahead of an election on Saturday, police said.
Nigerians are due to elect their next president and lawmakers on Saturday against a chaotic backdrop of armed conflict in the northeast, high levels of crime and shortages of cash, fuel and electricity.
(Reporting by Camillus Eboh and MacDonald Dzirutwe in Lagos; Writing by Chijioke Ohuocha; Editing by Alex Richardson and James Macharia Chege)
