Between electoral loss and self-exile

President Goodluck Jonathan

Against the backdrop of insinuations that some members of the political class are planning to flee the country after the general elections, a cross-section of politicians insist they will remain in the country, write PUNCH correspondents

As a result of the rising wave of violence ahead of the February 28 and April 11 general elections, politicians across the country have resorted to the use of non-conventional security organs such as ex-militants and vigilante groups.

A number of the politicians interviewed by PUNCH correspondents vowed not to flee the country if their parties lost the general elections.

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