Before the current onslaught, Akpabuyo/ Bakassi enjoyed the notoriety of heightened insecurity such as kidnapping, gangsterism, cultism, robbery, and even banditry.

Source: https://crossriverwatch.com/2023/07/rescuing-akpabuyo-and-bakassi-local-government-areas-from-the-hands-of-hoodlums-with-otu-on-the-drivers-seat-by-ugoji-nwabueze/

By comparison, today's Republican Party have full-on embraced neofascism, authoritarianism, racism, white supremacy, misogyny, bigotry, anti-intellectualism, anti-rationality and political cultism.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/03/24/the-view-gets-it-wrong-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-be-covered--not-ignored--by-the-media/

He said the problem of cultism and other crimes can be tackled through provision of jobs.

Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/01/21/secondary-school-students-artisans-now-into-cultism/

She said, I admonish students to remain diligent in both academics and otherwise while shunning hooliganism and cultism.

Source: https://www.ghanamma.com/ng/2023/01/11/todays-headlines-fire-guts-kaduna-catholic-seminary-shun-bad-gangs-lagos-govt-advises-students/

“The good people of Edo State, and the general public, I want to assure you that this operation to get rid of cultism and other heinous crimes in the state is a continuing process and by the grace of God we will achieve it,” he added.

Source: https://punchng.com/police-arrest-53-suspected-cultists-in-edo/