Opinion: Why Nigeria's Presidential Primaries Matter

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Nigeria's primaries decide UN agency can travel to challenge for the leadership of Africa's most inhabited country and one in all the world's major oil producers. The West state is one in all the most important influences within the region.

This year's convention was notably vital thanks to the 2 main candidates mentioned higher than. President eating apple is from the Niger Delta within the Christian-dominated south, whereas Abubakar is from the bulk Muslim north.

Since a come back to democracy from military rule 1999, there has been AN unofficial policy among the dominant PDP of rotating the presidency between the country's regions. the primary eight years visited the southwest, consequent eight were meant for the north, with the eight years afterward supposed to travel the southeast.


However, the death of President Umaru Yar'Adua -- UN agency was from the north -- last year modified all that. vice chairman eating apple became acting president and later actual president, before he declared his intention to run in 2011, so reducing this "gentleman's agreement."

The north is that the ancient power base in Federal Republic of Nigeria and lots of of the massive northern players ar bitterly resentful  at what they see as a hijacking of their flip at the presidency. As a result they need proposes Abubakar as their "consensus candidate" to oppose eating apple.

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