But international observers said that even Zimbabwe had better elections than Nigeria. So, the international community will be on tenterhooks as Nigerian masses march out Tuesday, to protest against the massively rigged elections of last April.
Today May 1, 2007, the Coalition of Opposition Political Parties (COPP), civil liberties groups, and labour unions in Nigeria will march on the streets to protest against the massively rigged April polls. But the police chiefs have warned them not to have any political rally or march anywhere in Nigeria.
The international community is already traumatized by the spate of attacks and kidnappings of foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta and thousands of them have fled Nigeria in fear. And they would not want to witness anymore-violent threats to their commercial interests and welfare in Nigeria. Any outbreak of violence in Nigeria ironically, has adverse affects on America and Britain, because of their huge investments in the country and Nigerians fleeing from crisis often end up as illegal immigrants in the US and the U.K. Nigeria is the fifth largest oil supplier to the US and second largest supplier of liquefied natural gas in the world That is why America and most Western European countries have been rather complacent in their criticisms of the violent April elections. And Britain has been the most hypocritical by condemning the stage-managed elections in Zimbabwe, because of the tyranny of President Robert Mugabe, but compromising in her response to the widely criticized flawed elections in Nigeria. But international observers said that even Zimbabwe had better elections than Nigeria. So, the international community will be on tenterhooks as Nigerian masses march out Tuesday, to protest against the massively rigged elections of last April.
Many leaders of the opposition parties met last Monday and resolved to go ahead with the mass protests on May Day, but they said the political protests would be peaceful.
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