NIGERIAN presidential and parliamentary elections were postponed for a week just hours before voting was scheduled to start in the Opec member nation last Saturday, adversely impacting the stock market and triggering mutual recrimination between main opposition contender Atiku Abubakar and incumbent head of state Muhammadu Buhari.
Many voters in Africa’s largest oil producer traditionally travel back to their hometowns to mark the ballot and fears are the delay may result in voter apathy among swathes of the electorate now having to return to their places of work, compromising turnout when polling finally opens on 23 February.
