Crisis Group followed Nigeria’s 28 March presidential elections from Lagos, Kano and Port Harcourt. Nnamdi Obasi, Nigeria Senior Analyst, discusses the impact of the historic polls, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari’s challenges and the reactions in the Niger Delta.
Nnamdi Obasi, Senior Analyst, Nigeria, discusses possible outcomes of the general elections rescheduled for 28 March and 11 April, and how the international community should prepare for post-election unrest that looks increasingly likely.
Crisis Group’s Africa Program assembled this Question & Answer paper following the recent postponement by six weeks of Nigeria’s general elections that were due on 14 and 28 February.
In this interview, Nnamdi Obasi, Crisis Group’s Senior Nigeria Analyst, speaks about what exactly it is that the insurgents want, how their activities have evolved, and why the government is ill-prepared to handle the insurgency.
Crisis Group's Senior Nigeria analyst Nnamdi Obasi explains the risk of violence around the 2015 elections in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s politics is sliding dangerously towards violence before, during and after the February 2015 elections. With only three months to the polls, mitigating bloodshed requires urgent improvements in security and electoral arrangements, as well as in political mind-sets.
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