Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I wish the Nigerian people well and I hope the electoral process will advance democratic participation. The background to this is that Nigeria continues to produce more oil while it sinks in the league of UNDP countries. In other words, the people's welfare is worsening while more oil is produced. Is the EU concerned about the religious and ethnic clashes that have taken place in recent times in Nigerian cities? The composition of the choices in the electoral process is likely to exacerbate existing tensions.

I refer to the dispersal of the Union's electoral observation mission. Is it deployed to observe north-south and Islamic-Christian tensions?

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