Africa
Incumbent wins flawed Nigerian poll
Nigeria’s former central bank governor and a governorship aspirant, Chukwuma Soludo, casts his vote in Isuofia village, about 30 km to Awka, the capital of Nigerian eastern state of Anambra at the weekend. Below is torn poster of Mr Peter Obi, the sitting governor who won the poll. Photos/REUTERS
Posted Sunday, February 7 2010 at 17:00
In Summary
- Governor secures new term but tells of trouble as he tried to find his own name
The PDP controls all but eight of the 36 states and Anambra is one of the few in the hands of the opposition.
Meanwhile, a Nigerian militant group said today it had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil pipeline in the Niger Delta but the Anglo-Dutch company said it had no reports of any such sabotage.
The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), a coalition of ex-militants and community leaders, said in a statement it had disabled a trunk line in the Obunoma area of Rivers state connecting several flow stations to the Bonny export terminal.
“At about midnight today, the patriotic force of the Niger Delta successfully disabled the trunk line belonging to Shell in the swamp of Obunoma,” the JRC statement said. Thousands of militants in the Niger Delta last year handed over weapons under an amnesty programme. (Agencies)
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