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Obasanjo is backing Umaru Yar'Adua, a quiet, prudent former chemistry teacher, for the presidency, after a falling-out last year with his former ally Vice President Atiku Abubakar. When Abubakar announced he was running for President, he was barred from standing by the electoral commission, which cited his indictment for corruption. Abubakar has challenged the ban in the Supreme Court and continued to campaign as a candidate. But the leading challenger to the PDP is now Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general who organized a coup against President Shehu Shagari in 1983 and lost the 2003 election to Obasanjo...
...RELEASED. Abubakar Ba'asyir, 67, Indonesian cleric convicted of criminal conspiracy in the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people; after serving 26 months in prison; in Jakarta. Upon leaving the city's Cipinang prison, Abubakar denounced the U.S. as a "state terrorist." Australian President John Howard, whose country lost 88 citizens in Bali, said millions of Australians were "extremely disappointed, even distressed" that the cleric had been set free...
...amendment now before parliament, the President's backers are rallying support for another term. Only Obasanjo, they argue, has the backbone to consolidate economic reforms that include paying off the country's debt and tackling corruption. To Obasanjo's fans, a change of leadership - particularly to Vice President Atiku Abubakar - would threaten any progress. But many of the President's former supporters now accuse him of mismanagement and dictatorial tendencies - charges his allies reject. Changing the constitution will only fuel instability, say critics. Most Nigerians seem to agree: a recent poll by independent researcher Afrobarometer found that...
...police will use the measure to curtail suspects' civil rights. Other skeptics suggest that the government's plan may miss the point by failing to address the origins of discontent. "As long as the Jolo natives keep on wallowing in poverty, terrorism will continue to thrive," says Asiri Abubakar, a professor at the University of the Philippines' Asian Center. "We may never see an end to these bombings...
...surrender power to her Vice President, former news broadcaster Noli de Castro. But De Castro, who served as a Senator before becoming Vice President last year, is best known to the public for his television career, not for accomplishments in office. "If De Castro takes over," says Asiri Abubakar, a political-science professor at the University of the Philippines' Asian Center, "at best he'll be merely a transition President. He doesn't have a track record...