Survey: Voters Say Civic Campaigns Overlook Green Messaging
A new survey in Nigeria’s oil-rich South-south region has revealed growing concern over the environmental and economic costs of electoral violence, with many respondents saying voter education campaigns pay little attention to the issue.
The study, published in the Asian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research by a research team based in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, surveyed 5,000 respondents across Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Rivers States.
It examined whether voter education could promote not only peaceful elections but also environmentally responsible conduct during electoral processes.
The findings suggest that residents increasingly associate election-related violence with environmental degradation in a region already grappling with the economic and ecological costs of decades of oil spills, gas flaring and deforestation.
