Nigeria’s frontrunners in upcoming vote embody characteristics that define country’s problems

Muhammadu Buhari is personally clean, but his anti-corruption measures almost exclusively targeted politicians of other parties.
Muhammadu Buhari won power in 2015 by claiming to be a born-again democrat and a "new broom" who would sweep away corruption, and many Nigerians dared to believe him.
LONDON, U.K.—Lengthy delays before announcing the results of African elections are commonplace (the Democratic Republic of Congo last month, Zimbabwe last July, etc.). It just means that people voted the wrong way, and the government needs time to rearrange the resu...

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