Following the violent deaths of 66 people in a massacre in Nigeria, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) accuses the country's president Muhammadu Buhari of failing to protect the civilian population against attacks by armed nomads. "The violence against Christians could cost Buhari his election victory," stated Ulrich Delius, the STP's director, in Göttingen on Friday. Buhari is hoping to be re-elected as President this weekend. In recent months, the Christian people have been demanding better protection against attacks by Fulani nomads. "However, Buhari has done nothing much than offer false promises – and he has been trying to whitewash the situation, despite the ongoing attacks," Delius emphasized. On Friday evening, it became known that 66 members of the predominantly Christian Kadara community got killed when Fulani nomads attacked eight villages in the south of the state of Kaduna. "It is misleading that the authorities are referring to these attacks as criminal acts of violence," said Delius. For several years, the STP has been demanding Nigeria's authorities to finally take credible measures against the violent attacks by Fulani nomads.

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