Nigeria Presidential Vote to Be Held April 9
West Africa | 11.24.10 By PoliticsAfrica Staff
Nigerians remain very divided on the candidacy of Goodluck Jonathan
Nigeria will hold its presidential election on April 9, 2011, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced.
This ends months of uncertainty over the timetable for polls in Africa’s most populous nation.
Parliamentary elections will be held on April 2 while gubernatorial polls in the country’s 36 states will round off the process on April 16, INEC chief Attahiru Jega told a news conference in the capital Abuja.
Nigeria, home to 150 million people, has conducted a string of criticized elections since becoming a democracy more than a decade ago.
The 2011 vote was initially scheduled to be held in January, but was postponed over concerns about having enough time to register an estimated 70 million would be voters.
Nigeria became a democracy through a presidential election in 1999, but its polls remained mired in vote-rigging, violence and political thuggery.
International observers called the 2007 election of late President Umaru Yar’Adua rigged, even though it represented the first civilian-to-civilian transfer of power in the nation’s history.
The coming presidential election puts President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian southerner, in what is likely to be an ethnically and religiously-charged contest with the nation’s largely Muslim north
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