April 16 (Bloomberg) - head of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan election of today to the high oil of Africa as the favorite producer closes after the failure of the opposition to unite behind a single candidate to stand against him.
Jonathan is a Christian of 53 years in the region rich in oil South of the Niger River delta, where an armed insurgency, now largely quiet, gross output cut of the nation of 28% from 2006 to 2009. "Are his two challengers, two Muslim northerners, former leader Muhammadu Buhari military, 68, and Nuhu Ribadu, the former age of 50 years at the head of the anti-corruption agency.It is an emotional thing for having their own at the top of the Niger delta, "Anyakwee Nsirimovu, Executive Director of the Institute for the rights of man and of humanitarian law, Port Harcourt said by telephone yesterday."While Jonathan popular decision, Democratic Party saw its majority in the Senate and the House of representatives was reduced in the legislative elections of last week, he still registered throughout Africa's most populous nation. 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 Nigeria. The results of the 120,000 polling stations are due within 48 hours, according to the electoral commission. "" The PDP won across the country, unlike the other parties, "said Clement Nwankwo, Executive Director of the policy and legal Advocacy Center, by phone yesterday in Abuja, the capital. "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 the Niger, then on corruption, "he said yesterday by phone 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 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.Opposition CriticismBuhari and Ribadu argued that Jonathan has failed to address poverty "corruption and violence.Jonathan was head in the last public opinion poll conducted by Ipsos for ThisDay, the Lagos-based newspaper reported April 6. The survey said 62.1% of voters have favored Jonathan for the vote, compared to 23.6% for Mr. Buhari and 6% for Ribadu, with more than 6 per cent undecided.The son of a family of manufacture of the canoe with a degree in zoology, Jonathan was relatively unknown when he appeared on politics in 1999, as the 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.Spoils of the OfficeNigeria oil and gas industry, which represents 80% of government revenues, earned $ 59 billion last year, according to competition Bureau National Statistics.The for spoils of Office stimulated a violent election campaign at least 25 people were killed during the législatifNational Commission vote electoral independent President Attahiru Jega, said April 13 concern investor over election-related violence and mainly Muslim and Christian clashes in the North, who made more than 200 victims since December 24, has been a surge in demand for foreign currency, according to the Central Bank. The naira reached an 18-month low against the dollar on March 17. "In a pre-election period all investments are suspect," Governor Lamido Sanusi, said in an interview by telephone from Abuja on 11 vitiated ElectionsThe last April, in 2007 elections, were sentenced as tainted by monitors from international to violent intimidation of voters and "falsification of figures and widespread ballot - sheared off.While there are attacks to the bomb on certain offices to vote and sheared off the ballots and vote tampering in other, more international observers, and said last week the elections are generally free and fair. "If you do not have an election sufficiently trusted by the people, it could cause problems and even lead to a conflict,"Emmanuel Ezeazu, Director of the Alliance for credible elections, a coalition of civil groups, said by telephone in Abuja." "People will think that they have not enough political space to express themselves and they look for you in other ways."ProblemsVoting election in 15 per cent of all legislative seats was postponed until April 26 because of problems with ballots that caused three-stage elections be delayed for a week. The vote for State Governors and legislators will take place on the same day. "There will be problems", the Canada former Prime Minister Joe Clark, a co-leader of the team of observers from the National Democratic Institute, said yesterday by phone to Abuja." "The real question has to do with the seriousness of these problems, be they local or more general." But no one expected that this will be no problems.-With the help of Elisha Bala-Gbogbo in Abuja and Chris Kay in London. Editors: Karl Maier, Emily Bowers.
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