Nigeria: a raid in Port Harcourt, a challenge to Niger Delta militancy
- March 8, 2019
- - 4:32 pm
Nigerian soldiers raided on March 7 the palace of the Amanyanabo of the Okochiri Kingdom, the traditional ruler in the Okirika Local Government Area of Port Harcourt, the capital of the country’s oil-producing Rivers State. The raid comes two days ahead of planned nation-wide state gubernatorial and state assembly elections in which the contest between the All Progressives Congress (which rules the federal government) and the People’s Democratic Party (which leads in the oil and gas Niger Delta region) is especially close and vulnerable to politically motivated militant violence intended to shape the electoral outcome. The raid on the traditional …
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