Nigeria Opposition Relies on Anti-Jonathan Push to Oust PDP
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Nigeria’s main political opposition movement, weakened by a series of defections to the ruling party, is hanging its election campaign on what it hopes is a backlash against President Goodluck Jonathan.
Jonathan, 56, has been pilloried by his critics for what they say is his poor record in dealing with Nigeria’s national security crisis amid one of the world’s deadliest insurgencies and failure to root out corruption and fix the economy. In the likelihood that he runs in the Feb. 14 election, the opposition All Progressives Congress says a campaign targeting Jonathan will be enough to turn Nigerians against the ruling People’s Democratic Party for the first time since 1999.