Nigeria is on this day of presidential and legislative elections. Police detonated two bombs found inside of a car parked near a polling station in Enugu, south-east of the country. Also, gunmen opened fire on villagers who were going to vote, killing at least six people. Attacks immediately attributed to Boko Haram.
The Islamist group has continued to weaken recently President Goodluck Jonathan, a candidate to succeed himself, and voted in his stronghold of Utuoke in the Christian south. His main rival, Muhammadu Buhari, he has voted in his hometown of Daura in the North. The former general hopes to return to power, he who ruled Nigeria with an iron hand in the middle of the 1980s This election is already promises to be the tightest since the end of military rule.
In addition to the violence, technical problems delayed the election process. Blame it on a new biometric card for the fight against fraud. "When I arrived at 7 am, we were told we could vote to 8:00 explains this inhabitant of Abuja. But it's more than 8 hours and still can not vote. ''
Some 60 million voters went to the polls. Nigerians were invited, for security reasons, to limit their movements, except for voting.
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