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Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is scheduled to hold presidential elections on Feb. 14, yet millions of people are unlikely to be able to vote.
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“Rather than proceeding straight into this train wreck, Nigeria should stop and create a temporary government of national unity,” Princeton Lyman, the former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, warned last week, adding that “keeping to the present timetable may well lead to disaster.”
Hundreds were killed in sectarian violence in the aftermath of the 2011 election, in which Jonathan, who is from southern Nigeria, defeated Buhari, a member of the All Progressives Congress who hails from the north. This year’s vote is particularly volatile given that some think Jonathan’s quest for a second term violates an informal arrangement for the presidency to alternate between the Muslim majority north and the largely Christian south.
