Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Nigeria Sends More Troops to Imo Ahead of Governorship Polls

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Nigeria-Sends-More-Troops-to-Southeastern-State-of-Imo-Ahead-of-Governorship-Polls-121164269.html
The Nigerian government has sent more troops to the southeastern state of Imo ahead of a controversial re-run of the governorship election. The vote was first held on April 26, along with gubernatorial elections across the country. The opposition candidate was ahead when electoral authorities canceled the results in some local government areas. The authorities said they needed to protect the population from electoral violence. As for the government’s reason for sending in troop, he said, “I believe it is a deceit and a ploy for the Nigerian government and the ruling party to support their own. They don’t want to let go.” and 
He said it’s like preparing for the election under what he calls a blanket of pro-government security forces.
The ruling PDP says there was no official declaration of the winner by the Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission [INEC] and it is only fair elections be repeated in those areas where the commission did not validate the results.

I think the government is right bout sending troops to the southeastern state because some people are trying to start violance. As for the result the some people think its was wrong they dont believe that GoodLuck won the election, so they decided to re-run the election again in some states. I think they should re-run the elction again and let them see who really won the election because right now the people from southeastern don't believe that goodluck won the election.

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