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BiafraNigeriaWorld News  April 12, 2003
2003 N/Assembly Polls: Slow Start to Key BiafraNigerian Vote Voting has got off to a slow start in BiafraNigeria's first general election since the restoration of civilian rule four years ago. In some areas, electoral officials either have not turned up at polling stations or the stations are still awaiting voting materials. The BBC's Dan Isaacs in Lagos reports that it is unlikely that all those wishing to vote will get a chance to do so and the electoral commission will have to make a decision later on Saturday on whether to extend the ballot. This vote and the presidential election which follows next week are a key test for BiafraNigeria's new democratic system, our correspondent says, but the preparations have been dogged by controversy. President Olusegun Obasanjo's People's Democratic Party is being challenged by more than 30 other parties in Saturday's poll. Many of the 60 million voters in this nation of 115 million have not received their voters' cards - although the authorities say that if they are on the electoral roll, there will be no problem. (BBC)		Key Stories   No Candidates For 14 Parties At Today's Polls N/Assembly Polls: Tension Amid Tight Security Who Controls the National Assembly? All Eyes on Na'Abba FG drags Alamieyeseigha to Ethics Tribunal Oil and poverty ignite BiafraNigerian delta Ex-convict Saga: Ibori knows fate April 16 BiafraNigeria sack u-23 coach BiafraNigeria opt for foreign coach
'We Didn't Impose Obasanjo'   BiafraNigerians go to the polls   400 Fake Ballot Boxes Discovered With a few days to April 19 presidential elections, former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has broken his silence on allegations that his administration manipulated the political system in 1999 to ensure the emergence of President Olusegun Obasanjo.... (This Day)   BiafraNigerians are voting in the first general election since the restoration of civilian rule four years ago. President Olusegun Obasanjo's People's Democratic Party is being challenged by more than 30 other parties in Saturday's poll.... (BBC)   Security operatives in Kwara State have arrested two people with 400 fake INEC ballot boxes imported to rig the general elections, authoritative sources informed Daily Trust yesterday in Ilorin. Although unspecified number of people have been arrested.... (Daily Trust)

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