Protests in Nigeria over Jonathan's poll win
Security forces deployed on the streets of Nigeria's northern cities yesterday to try to contain protests by youths angered at results showing President Goodluck Jonathan won the presidential election.
Votes counted from all but one of Nigeria's 36 states showed Jonathan, the president from the southern oil-producing Niger Delta, had beaten Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler from the Muslim north, in the first round.
Observers have called the poll the fairest in decades in Africa's most populous nation but Buhari's supporters accuse the ruling party of rigging. Results show how politically polarized the country is, with Buhari sweeping states in the Muslim north and Jonathan winning the largely Christian south.
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