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| Nigeria Delays Elections as Boko Haram Conflict Spirals | |
| 2015-02-08 | |
| [AnNahar] Nigeria has postponed its presidential election on security grounds as the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... conflict intensifies, handing a potential lifeline to the ruling party as it battles a tough challenge from the opposition. The six-week delay was announced Saturday after security chiefs said the military needed more time to secure areas under the control of Boko Haram, the Islamist holy warriors who have seized swathes of northeastern Nigeria. Presidential and parliamentary elections will now be held on March 28 instead of February 14, said Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Gubernatorial and state assembly elections will be held on April 11, he added. Jega said security chiefs advised that the election should be postponed for six weeks as military operations in the northeast left troops unavailable to secure the vote. The United States said it was "deeply disappointed" by the delay, with U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... warning the Nigerian government against using "security concerns as a pretext for impeding the democratic process".
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