Nigeria: Niger Delta yet on standby

Nigeria holds presidential and national assembly elections on February 16. As the results are too early to forecast, confidence among stakeholders and especially militants in the country’s oil and gas producing Niger Delta region is on standby. Nigeria’s national elections on February 16 will be followed by state governorship and state assembly votes on March 2. But given the enormity of powers provided for at the center of the Nigerian polity, what matters at the most profound order is the outcome of the country’s presidential vote. Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is being challenged …

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