Nigeria’s 2027 general election campaign has barely begun, but politicians and political appointees have already begun testing the limits of acceptable political speech. In the space of a few days, Nigerians have been confronted with a succession of extraordinary statements: a Borno State commissioner threatening to cut off the fingers of political opponents; the Yobe … Continue reading 2027: ‘Cut their fingers’; ‘leave your husband’; ‘support APC or leave’ – troubling campaign rhetoric exposes the thin line between political mobilisation and intimidation, yet no arrests