At least 34 election-related violent incidents and 18 deaths have been recorded in Osun State since May 2026, according to CJID’s Conflict Tracker. With voters heading to the polls on Saturday, 15 August, the pattern and concentration of these incidents raise questions about voter safety, participation and the security of the electoral process. Other actors have reported higher figures. The Nigeria Police Force has separately documented at least 30 killings it classified as politically motivated during the build-up to the election, while political parties have published their own casualty figures.
Political parties have also kept their own ledgers, with the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign alleging that twelve of its supporters were killed within 24 hours; five shot dead at a weekend rally and seven more on Tuesday as members assembled for a grand rally at the Igbogi area of the town. The Accord Party has also claimed eight of its members have been killed in the past week. These figures should not be treated as cumulative. They come from different sources, cover potentially overlapping incidents and apply different standards for determining whether a death is politically motivated. The differences nevertheless show the difficulty of establishing a single casualty count in an environment where political violence, criminal activity and alleged cult-related attacks increasingly overlap.
