article_snippet: Demonstrators fired gunshots and torched a local electoral office in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state on Sunday as Demonstrators marched to protest elections amid claims of vote-rigging and voter intimidation.
article_snippet: After the protests in Rivers, Muhammadu Buhari's's All Progressives Congress demanded elections be canceled.
article_snippet: More than 800 people were killed in post-election violence across Nigeria's north in 2011 after charges that those elections were illegitimate.
article_snippet: Nigeria's vote had been scheduled for February 14, but on February 7, Nigeria's election commission announced Nigeria's election commission would be postponed for six weeks because of security concerns, with the military needing more time to secure areas controlled by Boko Haram.
article_snippet: The controversial decision was unpopular among many Nigerians and led to widespread protests.
article_snippet: On Saturday, residents in the northeastern state of Gombe said at least 11 people were killed and two more injured in attacks at polling stations, apparently by Boko Haram extremists.