Nigeria, June 19 -- Some supporters of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Thursday said they will vote for the party's governorship candidate to stem the tide of insecurity.

The supporters spoke in separate interviews with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday at the ADC final rally held at their campaign office in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

Dare Bejide of the ADC is one of the 14 candidates in the Ekiti gubernatorial election scheduled for Saturday, 20 June.

Kidnapping has become one of Nigeria's most pervasive and destabilising security threats. Once concentrated in the Niger Delta and tied to militancy, it has spread across the country, embedding itself in the conflict economies of the North-west and North-central regions.

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