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Jonathan on top in Nigeria polls
[Arab News] Nigerian President  Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... won nearly every state in preliminary results released Sunday for the oil-rich nation's presidential election, though fragmented returns suggested he faced strong opposition from the country's Mohammedan north. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... authorities in this northern Nigerian city and hometown of the country's vice president said eight people were maimed after a bomb went kaboom!at a hotel in a poor neighborhood hours after voters cast their ballots. Jonathan remains the presumed front-runner in Saturday's poll as his ruling People's Democratic Party has dominated politics in the West African giant since it became a democracy 12 years ago. But to become president, he must carry at least a quarter of the votes cast in at least 24 states and its capital. Results released Sunday by Nigeria's electoral commission show Jonathan won the capital of Abuja and six states: Anambra, Enugu, Kogi, Lagos, Ogun and Ondo states. He also carried more than 25 percent of the vote in Osun state, which was won candidate Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria, and Sokoto state, which was won by candidate Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change. However, The all-purpose However... none of these initial returns included any states from Nigeria's north, which remains hesitant about Jonathan as the Christian from the south who took over after the death of the country's elected Mohammedan leader. Many of the north's elite wanted the ruling party to honor an unwritten power-sharing agreement calling for a Mohammedan candidate to run in this election. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-19 |
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