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Reports are rife of irregularities at polls across the nation. In the South Eastern state of Anambra for instance, neither the poll officials nor the ballot materials were sighted at most designated polling centres. where sighted, at all, they came very late, so late as to rubbish the 3.00p.m. closing time for voting. In a particular centre where i voted in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra state, balloting started at after 4.00pm, and even then most of the registered voters who turned up with their temporary ID cards could not vote because their names were not on the displayed voter's register. of course, the voter's register was never displayed for public scrutiny before the election. at that polling booth only one ballot box was provided for the two elections, leaving one to wonder how the votes were to be collated.

The above is definitely interesting, and surely true, but it is original research all the same, so I removed it. Picaroon 23:14, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Importance of BBC article[edit]

Is it necessary to have that "all you need to know about Nigeria" lede at the very top of this article? Sources should not be singular and it seems that compelling people to consider only one source defeats the purpose of an encyclopedic article.

--Bwryan2006 15:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you be more specific? I don't see anything of the sort. Picaroon 23:51, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Legitimacy[edit]

"If successfully completed, the 2007 presidential election will mark Nigeria's first peaceful handover from one democratically elected president at the end of his constitutional term to the next."

Passages like this give the impression that this was a fair and honest election - I'm concerned that the Background section is misleading in this respect. Any thoughts? Lost Number 12:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I rephrased it. Wizzy…☎ 16:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jolly good. Lost Number 08:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Candidates[edit]

How come the INEC website not only gives different vote totals, but also a different list of candidates? http://www.inecnigeria.org/election/show_result.php?catagory=Presidential Intelligent Mr Toad 23:46, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]