Nigeria: Oyo State governor warns over electoral violence.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

6 December

Ibadan-Oyo State Governor Alhaji Lam Adesina yesterday in Ibadan declared that any politician who might use force to gain political power in Yorubaland in the 2003 general elections will not live to enjoy that office. Governor Adesina who spoke to newsmen after the Id-al-Fitr celebration said "I'm crying out now so that people who want to over turn the peace of the state will stop." Alhaji Adesina while warning politicians against political violence in 2003 election said, "anybody who wants to introduce violence will only put back the hands of the clock."

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