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UNHAPPY START Nigerians may have elected President Umaru Yar'Adua in a landslide, but corruption remains endemic. Rioting resulted in 65 deaths. Crude-oil prices surged worldwide on fears that supplies from Africa's largest oil-producing state would be disrupted. Yar'Adua will face unrest; for starters, he must dump the zip-up bags...
Nigeria's presidential election was billed as the first civilian transfer of power since independence in 1960. That much was achieved with Monday's declaration that Umaru Yar'Adua will be the country's next President - ostensibly by a landslide 24.6 million votes to 6.6 million for his nearest rival. But it remains doubtful that this particular civilian transfer of power will end the political turmoil that has accompanied the election campaign...
...Berg, chief election monitor for the European Union. A local alliance of civil society observers called for the cancellation of Sunday's vote. "The election was a charade," they declared. "A democratic arrangement founded on such fraud can have no legitimacy." Even outgoing President Olesegun Obasanjo, who nominated Yar'Adua as his successor, admitted: "Our elections could not have been said to have been perfect...
...imports. When he won his second term in 2003, the former military dictator was also accused of massive vote-rigging. Six months ago, the 69-year-old Obasanjo tried to rewrite the constitution to allow himself a third term as President. When that failed, he nominated Yar'Adua, 56 - until then a nonentity - as his People's Democratic Party candidate, and unleashed anti-corruption investigators on his rivals. A handover of power from a strongman to his puppet in a rigged election is hardly conducive to democratic legitimacy, or stability...
...estimated 50 people killed and the tallies in two states nullified--it's with understandable trepidation that Nigeria heads into its presidential and parliamentary vote April 21. Three major contenders, above, are vying to become the nation's second democratically elected President: the ruling party's Umaru Yar'adua, opposition leader and current Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari. Political rallies have been banned to stanch the violence this time around, but if one candidate doesn't earn a plurality of the national vote and at least a quarter of the ballots...