00:00As Nigeria is gearing up for a January poll defined by a tough economy and rising insecurity,
00:06refugees in camps are bearing the brunt of both.
00:10Tucked among the suburbs of Abuja, Nigerians chased from their homes by jihadist insurgency
00:15have been living in this makeshift internally displaced persons IDP camp for 15 years
00:21with little to show for it.
00:23As presidential elections loom, many carry voters' cards and intend to use them
00:28against the government.
00:30What we want in this election is to have a change of situation in the country
00:34and a better life where we can have security because we have really suffered.
00:39We witnessed so many arsons and killings and the rest.
00:43There was no horror that we didn't see.
00:45We really suffered.
00:47There are 3,800 internally displaced people in Yusuf camp,
00:52others in the capital number close to 6,000 among roughly 3.7 million IDPs
00:57across the country per UN figures, up from 3.1 million in 2022.
01:04Refugee stay in camps has been characterized by poverty due to hard economic times.
01:12Beyond poverty, they've experienced conflict, and they've also left in many instances
01:19those that have left their home base.
01:23They've also left their source of livelihood behind.
01:28So, IDP voting is very important, not just because of this huge number that I've just mentioned,
01:35but it's also because we want to see the feelings of these people expressed.
01:39Meanwhile, Jihadists have continued to spread to northwesterns, north-central Nigeria,
01:44areas where militants from Sahel are also making inroads.
01:48Armgroup netted nearly $6 million in kidnapping ransoms between July 2025 and June 2026.
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