Nigeria elections

An attempt to register 70 million voters throughout Nigeria before to a start Saturday wobbled April presidential election, as a volunteer with defective devices and frustrated fought the people fought to find registration stations.

The two week effort in the most populous nation in Africa see fertile valleys and Central oil-rich southern Delta volunteers in approximately 120,000 sites in arid northern of Nigeria scattered. You will register used laptops, digital cameras and fingerprint scanner, to eligible voters.

But the drive, the first day started almost immediately problems.

At a school in Lagos ' Ikoyi Iceland, argued officials with each other in a distribution point for volunteers their sites should have occupied hours. If workers finally opened the metal boxes with their laptops, printers and additional batteries such as TOSHIBA PA2467U
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Later, workers at several locations by a reporter from the associated press sat visited, because she could not make the machinery of the Government for more than $230.000.000 work idle purchased. At a different station, Nigeria said rapper born and singer Nneka had they waited several hours to register, but the officials shut down and leave. Many complaints focused on the fingerprint scanner.

"It is only people who can wait for politicians who can afford it for four hours," said Oluwa aren, a frustrated voters.

Add to the confusion for prospective voters has the independent National Electoral Commission publishes a list of the registrars or written information on their website.

Spokesman Kayode Idowu Commission on Saturday said that Nigeria was commissioned been, walk close to their homes, to find a station. He called the themes Saturday as a "teaching problems." However, he confirmed that some places not even not yet received their equipment.

"You are be sorted up in the next 24 hours", Idowu said.

A list of which he previously showed registrars on the AP identified many sites such as schools. The Government recently announced that all schools in the nation of 150 million people would remain closed for a month, to allow for the registration, annoy parents and educators. More sites on the list remained vague. At least eighteen sites were under or close to mango described as.

The elections in April a presidential election in which President Goodluck Jonathan opponents from smaller parties will be confronted. Jonathan is a member of the ruling people's Democratic Party, the only force, with the money, political connections and muscles necessary to manipulate a choice.


International observers called the election of 2007 of the late President Umaru Yar'Adua ' Adua manipulated, even though it represented the first civilian to civilian transfer of power in the nation's history.

The registration points are by members of the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps, a mandatory one-year program for students occupied after her graduation from the University. The volunteers are also local election officials in April elections serve as, when the Corps warned leaders recently: "If someone wants to take away from, to the ballot box only to them and you save lives."

Lagos Iceland, has a registration point along a busy road to work. Mur Itala Okeowo, 48, held its show at passers-by, who was just two pieces of computer paper in a laminated cover with a fuzzy photo and a barcode on the back.

"To the show, there was a queue," Okeowo said. "The machine is not working well." "We wait here since the morning."

While Ikoyi Iceland school tries the organizers of prepare, 29 Remi Aderem came to try and register. Officials dismissed him. After that, he said he had driven point to its vicinity to try and a registration form, but found no one. Someone suggested, finally, he tried the school.

Aderem shrugged and took it in a country where parties and events routinely begin hours after its start time.

"People want real democracy," he said. "If you invite the people, they will come."

An attempt, 70 million voters throughout Nigeria before his April election register a start wobbled Saturday, fought as a volunteer with defective.