Nigeria: Elections Postponed. Nigeria On the Brink - Again

[African Arguments]Suddenly North-East Nigeria has become important to President Goodluck Jonathan's government. It has provided an excuse to postpone the elections from February 14th to March 28th. But the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not want a postponement - it said that the provision of election materials was going ahead as planned. The Council of State which includes all former presidents and the heads of the judiciary, senate and other state bodies, did not want a postponement. National opinion