The organisation also expressed concern about the workability of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System in all parts of the country, especially in the rural areas.
The Team Leader, EU Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria phase two programme, Rudolf Elbling, expressed the fears during a seminar organised in Abuja to assess various security threats that could impact the conduct and credibility of the elections.
Elbling, who explained that elections have the potential to create unrest and instability for a country like Nigeria, warning that such unrest would not only be dangerous for Nigeria but for the whole of West Africa.
Speaking on EU’s fears concerning the elections, Elbling described innovations introduced by the Independent National Electoral Commission to the electoral process as quite substantial.
He, however, said that insecurity, which he described as the basic problem, might prevent INEC from conducting elections in all parts of the country.
While advising politicians to accept the election legal framework and play by the rules, Elbling said the rules are there to be accepted not to be manipulated.
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