Obi Attack: SERAP urges Tinubu to direct IGP to take over case
” “The reported incident must also be viewed against Nigeria’s troubling history of political violence, intimidation and impunity.” The statement, read, in part: “SERAP is seriously concerned that attacks, threats and intimidation against political actors undermine constitutionally and internationally guaranteed human rights and risk further shrinking Nigeria’s already fragile civic and political space, particularly as the country moves towards the 2027 general elections.
It is an affront to the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Nigeria’s international human rights obligations, including under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, to which Nigeria is a state party.
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