The country recently had elections and this article speaks to that.
The winners sunk crates of champagne at all-night parties while the losers called their lawyers and headed for the courts. So quick is the recourse to law in political disputes in Nigeria these days that lawyers count themselves as winners whatever happens on the political battlefield. And battlefield it was with some 60 people dead and 280 arrested and a residual fury at the state-organised cheating and thuggery that marked Saturday's national elections for state governors. Groups of protesters took to the streets in half a dozen cities calling for the cancellation of the elections. Some turned nasty, overturning cars and setting up burning barricades.
A nation goes to the polls: Democracy, Nigerian style - Independent Online Edition > Africa
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