” that nigerians are disillusioned and don’t care. Last elections, Buhari history by poking the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan who was up for re-election but admitted defeat. It was an incredibly important milestone that was passed in the nigerian development of democracy, but the factors were different then. The economy would implode after the oil price collapse in the previous year and terrorsekten Boko Haram had taken control of large areas in the northeastern parts of the country. The discontent was massive. People are still unhappy with the handlebars, but not with the same intensity as four years ago. The turnout looks to land on under 30 percent of registered voters and the entire voting population of around 100 million inhabitants, has an even smaller percentage chose to vote.
– the leader of the Opposition PDP, which has traditionally had its strongest support in the christian south, launched a muslim candidate, Atiku Abubakar, from the northern parts of the country to try to take shares from Buharis core areas. But Abubakar is a person who lacks real charisma (which also applies to Buhari should be said) and he is seen as just as corrupt as other parts of the establishment and lacked the ability to fire up the masses. They not launched a candidate from the southern parts of the country did not managed to light their kärnväljare. For the PDP would have a chance was necessary not only that they completely secured their own mounts but also made large inroads in the north. Now it was the opposite result. They own kärnväljarnas commitment was lukewarm and in the north, joined the residents on the safe option: the representative in the capital Abuja that they already had.
” the Deaths are tragedies for the victims and their families and it is sad to see that a democratic election is to harvest as many lives. But with the nigerian are the dimensions of this year’s election has been relatively quiet. It is a large country with over 200 million inhabitants that has experienced significant strain in recent years. In the north, terrorsekten Boko Haram, who kidnapped and killed tens of thousands and forced millions into refugees, tried to disrupt the process. In the central parts have explosions of violence between farmers and herdefolk created tensions during the last half of the year, and in the south, the niger delta has been troubled. Against the background of these hot spots, it had been far worse. One reason for the unrest have been relatively limited, both during the campaign phase as during the day of the election and when the result announced, is that both candidates were from the same northern areas and of the same religious residence, which defused the potential conflict between the north and the south and between the muslims and the christians before they could occur.
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