Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2011

Nigeria's Elections: Reversing the Degeneration?

February 2011

International Crisis Group

Abstract

"Nigeria's Elections: Reversing the Degeneration?", the latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the build-up to a month that will see the president, state governors and the federal legislature chosen in a series of polls that, if credible and peaceful, could finally reverse the degeneration of the franchise since the country returned to civilian rule in 1999. However, many politicians still seem determined to bribe, rig or bully their way to office.