April 17 (Bloomberg) - Nigerians are waiting for the results of the presidential election which outgoing Goodluck Jonathan is favored win, in the reports by the observers for irregularities.
There is more than 50 incidents at 120,000 polling stations in the country, including snatched ballot boxes, intimidation under the age of voting and voter, according to a statement from the Abuja-based Nigerian election Situation Room, a coalition of groups of observers from civil society.Results are expected within 48 hours when the close of polling at 18 hours, local time yesterday, the independent National Electoral Commission said in a statement by e-mail. Officials began counting the ballots and collate results immediately, a process which "must not be carried out under a cloud of secrecy if the election should be considered as free, fair and credible," group of observers said.Nigerian voters chose or not to give power to Jonathan, aged 53 Christian from the South of the River Niger delta oil-rich region, where an armed insurgency cut exit gross nation of 28% from 2006 to 2009. His two challengers, two Muslim northerners, are former leader Muhammadu Buhari military, 68, and Nuhu Ribadu, the former age of 50 years at the head of the anti-corruption agency.Reduces the majority "It's an emotional thing for having their own at the top of the Niger delta," said Anyakwee Nsirimovu, Director Executive of the Institute for the rights of man and of humanitarian law, Port Harcourt by telephone April 15 while Jonathan popular decisionDemocratic Party saw its majority in the Senate and the House of representatives was reduced to the week's legislative elections last., he registered yet. The PDP has 59 of the 90 seats in the Senate, said to date and 40 of 262 seats in the lower Chamber, the election commission said April 12. Fifteen 109 Senate districts and 48 of the 360 constituencies of the House will hold the vote on April 26 because of problems with the bulletinsCENI said. "To win in the first round, Jonathan must obtain a majority and secure 25% of the vote in two-thirds of the 36 States of PDP Nigeria.Le won across the country, unlike the other parties," Clement Nwankwo, Executive Director of the policy and legal Advocacy Centresaid by telephone on 15 April in Abuja. "In places, that he did not win, he finished second.". "I think that the lead will be difficult to reverse by the other parties." "The Air costs campaign slogan'While Jonathan is a""bouffée of fresh air", the PDP held Nigeria since it emerged from the military Government in 1999." There is no real ideological differences between the candidates, said SCN Oyekanmi, the Director General of the Africa Western Renaissance Capital. "Instead, there are a number of key issues. One is the position of power, the other is the delta of Niger, and then on corruption, "he said on 15 April by telephone of the commercial capital of Lagos, Nigeria." "They all seem to be saying the same things, say that they make you better than the other.".Jonathan is committed to targeting the costs for infrastructure, including power and railways, in order to boost employment in a country where more than half of the population lives on less than $1 per day, according to the United Nations Development Programme. "The roadmap for power, which aims to improve nutrition by selling the companies belonging to the State of power to investors, it is one essential thing he did," said Oyekanmi.Buhari and Ribadu said that Jonathan has failed to address poverty "corruption and violence.Delta AmnestyThe son of a family of manufacture of the canoe with a degree in zoology, Jonathan was relatively unknown until 1999, when he became Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State. He became Governor when his boss, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, was attacked by the Assembly of the State after he was indicted for money laundering United Kingdom. In 2007, he was chosen as the candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the PDP ticket and may took over the chairmanship when Umaru Yar'Adua ' watch is dead.Yar'Adua has started an amnesty program in the delta of the Niger River, calm militant attacks. Based in the Hague Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp., Irving, Texas, Chevron Corp. of San Ramon, California, its total France and Eni SpA the Italy run joint ventures with oil of State more than 90 per cent of Africa in the West of pump oil from the nation.Nigeria's oil and gas industry, which represents 80% of the revenue of the Government, earned $ 59 billion last year, according to the National Office of Statistics.The competition for spoils of Office stimulated a violent election campaign at least 25 people were killed during the législatifNational vote independent Electoral Commission Chairman Attahiru Jega said April 13That an explosion was reported about 8: 30 a.m., April 15 at an Office of the electoral commission in the city of North-East of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State. No one was injured, Commissioner of Police of Borno Mike Zuokumor said by phone yesterday.The electoral commission expressed "regret" about the arrests of some people who were observing the vote, according to a statement by email. "Partisan agents" posing as observers were arrested and some legitimate monitors have been rounded up at the same time by error, the commission said.-With the help of Ardo Hazzad of Bauchi and Chris Kay in London. Editors: Karl Maier, Emily Bowers, Andrew Blackman, Christian Thompson.
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