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Nigeria: the election fever might go higher– the South vs. the North

By on August 18, 2010
By declaring that Goodluck Jonathan, Christian from South and acting President, had the right to stand for presidency in 2011, the PDP has blown a real lock. It is a rotating presidency for eight years, between the North (Muslim) and the South (Christian), and that President Umaru Yar’Adua, a Muslim died while in office last May, could not exercise.

If the compromise reached by the leaders is not to split the PDP party, nonetheless, they opened the Pandora’s box. Thus, the early presidential election in Nigeria (2011) will be hotly disputed. Indeed, strong political personalities will be engaged in the race to the presidency. The current President Goodluck Jonathan, southerner, is already opposed to the two heavyweights from the North: General Ibrahim Babangida and the Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
Most of analysts think that the two candidates from the North, already declared, will neutralise each other.  However, Goodluck Jonathan will still need the support of all factions in the north to get elected as the head of Nigeria. But has the country reached enough maturity, and got enough alertness to stay away from the ethnic and the religious coalitions? For the moment, Goodluck Jonatnan did not give yet any comment, nor did he say if he was running for his nomination as the head of the PDP party?

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