Nigerians decide their country's future in hotly contested presidential election

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Nigerians across the country hit the polls on Saturday, casting votes in a hotly contested presidential election between two candidates with opposing backgrounds

President Goodluck Jonathan is running for reelection. He is a Christian with supporters in the mainly Christian south, and has been blasted for what critics have called a slow response to radical militants in Nigeria's northeast. Jonathan's main opponent is Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim with a support base in the predominantly Muslim north, who was the military ruler of Nigeria for nearly two years during the 1980s. Buhari is thought to be the first presidential candidate in Nigeria with a legitimate chance to unseat Jonathan. The two men are frontrunners among 14 candidates Read more...

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