Nigeria: managing Buhari’s win by the Niger Delta

Preliminary results from Nigeria’s presidential election indicate that incumbent leader Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress will defeat principal challenger Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party and secure a second four-year term in office. Buhari has reportedly obtained sufficient votes in the electorally-required two-thirds of Nigeria’s thirty-six states so as to earn an outright victory and avoid a run-off vote, which would otherwise have to take place within seven days from February 23, the date the first-round presidential vote was held. Unsurprisingly the incumbent president obtained a majority of voters support in the country’s northern states and …

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