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Nigeria: Some Will Vote, Some May Wait

   Joe DeCapua  April 07, 2011
   An Unidentified man reads a newspaper with the headline 'National
   Shame' after the election was postponed Saturday by Election Commission
   Chairman Attahiru Jega, Lagos, Nigeria, April 3, 2011

Photo: AP

   An Unidentified man reads a newspaper with the headline 'National
   Shame' after the election was postponed Saturday by Election Commission
   Chairman Attahiru Jega, Lagos, Nigeria, April 3, 2011

   Nigerian senate elections that were postponed April 2^nd could be
   postpone again, at least in part.

   INEC, the Independent National Electoral Commission, is proposing that
   some states hold their senate elections Saturday as planned after the
   postponement, while others wait.

   INEC says those states that actually started voting prior to the
   postponement announcement should now delay their vote until after both
   the presidential and gubernatorial elections. It says ballots from the
   interrupted voting could be tampered with, so it's best to wait and
   start anew later.

   The delay was blamed on the late arrival of important election
   materials known as result sheets.

   Meanwhile, those states where voters did not cast ballots before the
   announcement would hold Senate elections this Saturday.

   Some opposition parties are criticizing the move, saying it goes
   against official election plans.

   VOA reporter Chinedu Offor is on assignment in Abuja following
   developments. He explains the situation in an interview with Joe De
   Capua. Click below to listen.

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