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During his rise to the top, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan dismantled a historic power-sharing arrangement meant to bridge the country’s divisions, and his current bid for re-election could now exacerbate tensions between north and south.
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Others have argued that the time had come to end Nigeria’s power-sharing arrangement, noting that rotating the presidency between candidates picked by political elites is not very democratic. Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party has been in power since democracy returned to the country in 1999, partly due to its policy of “geopolitical balance.” This year, a new coalition of opposition parties, the All Progressives Congress, is closer than ever to ousting them.
