Goodluck Jonathan wins vote to run in Nigeria's April election

Nigeria's Jonathan wins party primary
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan won the ruling party's primary on Friday after fending off a challenge from the mainly Muslim north, setting him up as the favourite in April's landmark Elections. Jonathan dominated his main challenger, ex-vice president Atiku Abubakar, taking nearly 80 percent of the vote of party delegates that began Thursday evening and ended with a final tally early Friday. However, Abubakar's campaign alleged intimidation and rigging, and his electoral agents refused to...

Jonathan wins Nigerian ruling party nomination
Nigeria's ruling party nominated Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan as its Presidential Candidate Friday for April's landmark vote after he fended off a challenge from the country's mainly Muslim north. Jonathan, thrust into the presidency in May after the death of his predecessor, will now be favoured to win the April 9 election being viewed as one of the most important in the history of Africa's most populous nation. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party has won every presidential vote since Nigeria re...

Nigeria's Jonathan takes early lead in primaries
By Joe Brock and Camillus Eboh ABUJA | Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:47pm EST ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan took an early lead on Friday as votes were counted from the ruling party primaries, although his main rival's camp raised questions about the conduct of the poll. The vote pits Jonathan, the first head of state from the southern oil-producing Niger Delta, against ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a businessman from the mostly Muslim north, in a race that has split the Peop...

Nigerian president wins primary election
ABUJA, Nigeria -- President Goodluck Jonathan, who took on his nation's top job only after the death of the country's elected leader, won the Endorsement of oil-rich Nigeria's ruling party Friday morning, clinching a victory that makes him the overwhelming favorite to win in the April Presidential Election. Jonathan cast himself as the leader able to change a nation both blessed by natural resources but cursed by years of Military dictatorships. However, the regional and religious tensions that...

Nigeria's Jonathan wins party nomination
Jonathan, 53, thrust into the presidency in May after the death of his predecessor Umaru Yar'Adua, is now favoured to win the April 9 vote which is viewed as one of the most important in the history of Africa's most populous nation. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party has won every presidential vote since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999. Jonathan's primary win also means he has upended an arrangement within the PDP that sees its Candidates rotated between the north and south every tw...

Anti-graft czar to be opposition in Nigerian poll
LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's former anti-corruption czar, who won international acclaim for seeking charges against members of the oil-rich nation's political elite, was chosen Friday as the Presidential Candidate of the country's strongest opposition party. Nuhu Ribadu's entry into the race comes hours after the nation's ruling People's Democratic Party overwhelmingly endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan in a Primary Election decided just before dawn on Friday. The two likely will be the st...

Nigeria's Jonathan takes early lead in primaries
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan took an early lead on Friday as votes were counted from the ruling party primaries, although his main rival's camp raised questions about the conduct of the poll. The vote pits Jonathan, the first head of state from the southern oil-producing Niger Delta, against ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a businessman from the mostly Muslim north, in a race that has split the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Jonathan had a commanding lead with vote...

Nigerian primary gives nod to incumbent
ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Primary Elections in Nigeria gave Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan his party's overwhelming support for national voting in April, results showed Friday. Results published in Abuja showed Jonathan surpassed his main People's Democratic challenger, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, by a margin of 2,736 votes to 805, the BBC reported. There were allegations of voting Fraud in the Western African country that ended Military rule in 1999, the report said. Nig...

Nigeria's ruling party to decide Jonathan's fate
By Camillus Eboh and Joe Brock ABUJA | Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:37pm EST ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party decides on Thursday whether to back President Goodluck Jonathan as its Candidate in April Elections, in one of the tightest races since the end of Military rule more than a decade ago. Such is the dominance of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigerian politics that whoever wins its primaries has in the past gone on to be the country's next ruler. Historical precedent is on Jonatha...

Jonathan declared winner of Nigerian primary vote
Nigeria's ruling party on Friday declared Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan its Candidate for April presidential Elections after he fended off a northern rival to win a primary vote. After announcing final vote tallies, party official Tunde Adeniran said, "I ... therefore declare Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to be the winner of this presidential Primary Election of the Peoples Democratic Party." This story is sourced direct from an overseas news agency as an additional service to readers. Spelling follo...

Nigeria leader in party challenge
Armed robber? Nigeria's governing party is to choose its Candidate for presidential Elections due to be held in April. The strongest challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to come from ex-vice-president Atiku Abubakar. The PDP Candidate has won every poll since the end of Military rule in 1999, so its Candidate will be favourite. But some analysts say the PDP could split over the vote with southerners backing Mr Jonathan and Mr Abubakar supported by those from the north. The...

Nigeria: Ruling party votes for primary candidate
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Delegates of Nigeria’s ruling party began voting Thursday night to pick its Presidential Candidate, choosing between honoring a power-sharing agreement by selecting a Muslim or endorsing the oil-rich nation’s current Christian leader. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar hammered President Goodluck Jonathan in a Speech over rising debit and growing insecurity in a country divided between a dominantly Christian south and a Muslim north. Jonathan responding ...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan wins ruling partys presidential primary
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan wins ruling party’s presidential primary....

Ribadu chosen for Nigeria's poll
Armed robber? Nigeria's former anti-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu has been chosen as the opposition Action Congress Candidate for April's presidential polls. Two other contenders stepped aside to allow Mr Ribadu to win unchallenged. His entry into the presidential race come hours after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan won the ruling People's Democratic Party primary. The PDP Candidate has won every poll since the end of Military rule in 1999, despite allegations of Fraud. Mr R...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan wins ruling party's presidential primary
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Religion and region at play in Nigerian election
ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's ruling political party will pick its Presidential Candidate Thursday for the April election, a decision that delegates may make based on where the Candidate is from rather than what he has to offer. That vote, pitting President Goodluck Jonathan against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, highlights the religious and ethnic fault lines still running through the Oil-rich nation of 250 ethnicities more than 40 years after its deadly Civil War. Those differences s...

Intrigue under the floodlights as Nigeria party votes
By Joe Brock ABUJA | Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:34pm EST ABUJA (Reuters) - As a band rattled off decades-old R&B hits, the great and the good of Nigeria's political elite and their minions lined up under the floodlights to decide who is likely to become the country's next leader. A visitor might be mistaken for thinking he had wandered into some sort of glamorous line dancing competition, but Thursday night's ruling party presidential primary is arguably the most important date in Nigeria's polit...

Republican Party Selects Pro-Life Reince Priebus as New Chair
Republican Party officials gave their votes, after several rounds of balloting, to Reince Priebus to replace embattled chairman Michael Steele as the party and pro-life movement prepare for the 2012 Presidential Election. Priebus, the Wisconsin Republican Party chairman, received the support of conservative members of the GOP, including pro-life attorney Jim Bopp, the legal counsel for the National Right to Life Committee. “I believe, absolutely, that life begins at the mome...

U.N. 'concerned' by Ivorian violence
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The United Nations is "deeply concerned" about the escalation of violence in the Ivory Coast following attacks on peacekeepers, the secretary-general said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement through his spokesman, warned leaders in the Ivory Coast that they would be held accountable for attacks on U.N. forces in the country. Forces loyal to Incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo set a U.N. vehicle on fire and later forced a U.N. ambulance to flee part...

The Middle East's Christian Onslaught
Church bombings kill scores in Iraq, Nigeria and Egypt. Iran rounds up dozens of Christians for allegedly being "hard-liners" who threaten the Islamic Republic. An Egyptian Police Officer opens fire on a crowded train, targeting only the Christian passengers. For a region that boasts of accommodating its Christian Minorities, officials seem at a loss to stem the surge in violence. While many Muslims took to Coptic churches to serve as human shields as a sign of solidarity, the Egyptian governme...

Religion and region at play in Nigerian election
Nigeria's ruling political party will pick its Presidential Candidate Thursday for the April election, a decision that delegates may make based on where the Candidate is from rather than what he has to offer. That vote, pitting President Goodluck Jonathan against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, highlights the religious and ethnic fault lines still running through the Oil-rich nation of 250 ethnicities more than 40 years after its deadly Civil War. Those differences still lead to violence a...

Ivory Coast strife draws in West Africa central bank
By Tim Cocks ABIDJAN | Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:06pm EST ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Bloody post-election deadlock in Ivory Coast washed into the halls of West Africa's Central Bank on Friday, where rival presidents see control of state funds as a key to victory in a battle that has cost hundreds of lives. Alassane Ouattara, the challenger regarded by international powers as the winner of the November 28 Presidential Election, complained that the Incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, was still receiving Central Bank ...

Ivory Coast strife draws in West Africa central bank
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Bloody post-election deadlock in Ivory Coast washed into the halls of West Africa's Central Bank on Friday, where rival presidents see control of state funds as a key to victory in a battle that has cost hundreds of lives. Alassane Ouattara, the challenger regarded by international powers as the winner of the November 28 Presidential Election, complained that the Incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, was still receiving Central Bank funds on a daily basis, even as he refuses to step do...

With Steele's job on the line, Republicans vote for party chief
Republicans will decide Friday whether Michael Steele deserves some credit for the party’s historic victory in last year’s Midterm Elections or whether he should be replaced ahead of the Presidential Campaign cycle for being a gaffe-prone liability.   Steele, who is seeking a Second Term as chairman of the Republican National Committee, made a final 30-minute pitch to the 168 RNC members assembled at National Harbor in Maryland Thursday afternoon for the party's annual winter meeting. His

Ivory Coast standoff: Hit Gbagbo where it hurts -- take away the power of the purse (The Christian Science Monitor)
New York – Laurent Gbagbo, the self-proclaimed winner of Ivory Coast’s Nov. 2010 Presidential Election, is known to his countrymen and others as “le boulanger” - the baker - because he emerges as the victor against his many opponents by rolling them in the flour or, to put it another way, by outwitting and outmaneuvering them. Is the international community the next to be rolled? Politicians and Diplomats the world over are working overtime to craft a peaceful solution