Delay elections in Nigeria?
Would a delay serve more than one purpose?Security chief urges vote delay
Nigeria's national security adviser [Sambo Dasuki] has urged the electoral commission to delay next month's elections to allow more time for voter card distribution.
Sambo Dasuki
The polls are the first in Nigeria to require voters to have biometric cards.
Nigeria, wracked by a violent uprising by Islamists Boko Haram, is scheduled to hold the election on 14 February…
And he criticised "cowards" within Nigeria's armed forces for hampering the campaign against the insurgents.
"We have people who use every excuse in this world not to fight," he told an audience at the Chatham House think-tank in London, adding "there is no high-level conspiracy within the army not to end the insurgency"…
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Labels: elections, Nigeria, politics, terrorism
posted by Ken Wedding @ 1:15 PM
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