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Nigeria: Ripe for a WikiLeaks revolution?
Leaked cables helped expose high-level corruption, but will those revelations impact upcoming elections?
Jacqueline Head Last Modified: 15 Apr 2011 16:46

Some analysts believe that Nigerians disillusioned with their leaders will simply not vote [Reuters]

It is only months since the US diplomatic cables released by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks made headlines around the world with their revelations about Nigeria.

Among them, allegations that Nigeria's government dropped legal action against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which is accused of running a clinical trial that killed and disabled children, after the drugs company threatened to investigate the attorney-general.

Others revealed that oil firm Shell had infiltrated every level of government and alleged that it was politicians, rather than fighters in the oil-rich Niger Delta, who stole oil wealth and used it to fund arms deals.

Despite attempts by Nigerian leaders and state-run media to discredit WikiLeaks, the cables have been a powerful reminder for residents and the international community on the extent of corruption in the country and how deep its problems go.

But as voters head to the polls for presidential and regional elections, how many will be influenced by the material published over the last few months, and could such revelations bring about real change?

'WikiLeaks revolution'

In other nations, WikiLeaks has claimed credit for naming corrupt administrations, empowering voters by releasing secret government documents, and helping to topple governments.

Julian Assange, the website's founder, said last year that WikiLeaks had "changed the result of the Kenyan general election" in 2007 when it released a secret report into corruption perpetrated by the family of the country's former leader, that the-then government had done nothing to tackle.

A stronger claim was made for Tunisia, which some, to the annoyance of many protesters, called the first "WikiLeaks revolution". The release of a June 2009 cable that spelt out the corruption present in the country's ruling family appeared to act as one catalyst for change in a country struggling with rising inflation, unemployment and repression.

Surely then Nigeria, which has suffered corruption and sporadic violence for decades and now benefits from relatively high levels of internet and mobile access, is ripe for a reaction to these latest revelations.

Dele Olojede, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, set up his newspaper Next several years ago in an attempt to provide a lone independent and credible voice in Nigeria. Through a third party, his publication has obtained US cables from WikiLeaks, and used them to show the "truth" about the politicians Nigerians are set to elect.

"We believe we are doing a public service [by releasing these documents]," he said. "They had a public interest , revealing things that were closer to the truth."

The releases include one cable in which a state governor reports to US diplomats that Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent president, had voted four times in elections in 2007, although his government strongly denies the claim.

Despite being an advocate for releases such as these, Olojede is more sceptical about the change they will bring.

"We have published stories over the past two years that were absolutely explosive in the sense that a rational person reading them would think that heads must roll, but nothing happened!" he said, adding that at other times, a seemingly insignificant story would have repercussions.

"It's not clear at this stage what impact these releases will have. A voter takes many things into consideration. I think what the WikiLeaks documents show is what most people already knew about their leaders. However the cables do have the advantage of being specific and naming individuals."

Ethnic divisions

Olojede's view, that most Nigerians are aware of their leaders' faults, may be one of the reasons that while people around the world felt a sense of shock and outrage from the US diplomatic cables, they did little to provoke anger in Africa's most populous nation.

"I don't think WikiLeaks will have much influence. People already know that Nigeria is corrupt and that politicians don't work in their interests," Dr Patrick Wilmot, a London-based commentator on Nigerian affairs and former lecturer there, said.

"They know through the grapevine, the bush telegraph, that their leaders are completely corrupt, that they don't spend their money on schools or public hospitals , or anything of benefit to the public."

He believes that Nigerians will respond to claims of corruption by simply not taking part in elections, rather than casting a protest vote, and so such revelations will having no bearing on the poll.

The divisions within Nigeria are also a factor in the country's failure to galvanise popular support against a government, he says.

The United Nations estimates there are between 250 to 400 ethnic groups in Nigeria, and two major religions, Christianity and Islam. It is this diversity, Wilmot says, that prevents a situation similar to the one in Tunisia from arising.

Peter Cunliffe-Jones, head of AFP online in London and author of My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence says Nigeria’s long history of corruption has meant people have learnt to have low expectations of their leaders.

"This is a country that has been ruled by the military for years. Many leaders stole billions during their presidencies. It's very difficult to shock a Nigerian of the baseness of their government."

Feeding the status quo

So why then, in a mineral rich nation with around 150m people, is there not a greater fight against endemic poverty, inequality and injustice?

Nearly one third of the population has access to the internet, the highest rate in the region. The majority of people are under the age of 35. These are two factors that have helped spark protest movements elsewhere.

"There are a very large number of reasons," Cunliffe-Jones says, as to why Nigerians are not out on the streets.

"Most people around the world concentrate on their daily struggle - finding food and shelter. It's a lot easier in the UK for example to stage a protest, but in Nigeria there's a reasonable chance police will shoot you."

"These elections have shown some signs of change. There's been a move against the ruling party and some support for Nuhu Ribadu," the country's former head of the anti-corruption agency.

"But in Nigeria it can't be the shock of revelations that makes the change. I think there is a fair bit of evidence that WikiLeaks had an impact in Tunisia, but in Nigeria people have been writing about high level corruption since the 1960s.

"The Tunisian press were very tightly controlled, with not a hint of criticism. The Nigeria press is vastly different. They have been howling outrage about their leaders but that's where the belief that it's not possible to change comes from.

"The WikiLeaks revelations only feed into the status quo. It needs to be a revelation coming from the other way – such as 'here's a good governor doing a good job'," Cunliffe-Jones says.

Olojede says that no one can predict the outcomes of news reports, and Nigeria does not tend to take cues from movements sweeping other nations.

"I would have been the happiest person if WikiLeaks revelations had caused people to rise up.

"But in Tunisia how does one know that one person's decision to self immolate would spark something that would consume the whole region?"

"It cannot be guaranteed ahead of time , it can't be WikiLeaks itself [influencing these events]."

Prospects for change

There have been some small indications, however, that change could be on its way.

An online social movement, called Enough is Enough, has held demonstrations over the past year calling for electoral reform and solutions to ongoing violence and power shortages.

Olojede says social media, such as text messaging, has created a more level playing field for information dissemination.

"Social movements probably do have a certain appeal to the young generation because they have a shared experience: they grew up in the internet age.

"They think in a certain type of way that over time will bring about change.


http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/nigeriaelections/2011/04/201141514313670141.html
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Early results from some polling centres across the country showed President Goodluck Jonathan and Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in a tight race in the presidential election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission across Nigeria on Saturday.

While Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party is believed to be having the upper hand in the South-South, South-East and South-West, Buhari led in many wards in the North-East, North-West and North-Central.

But Buhari, who contested the poll under the umbrella of the Congress for Progressive Change, has already alleged foul play in the conduct of the exercise.

A confident President Goodluck Jonathan, after casting his ballot at Otazi Playground Polling Unit in Otuabula Ward 13, Otuoke Bayelsa State, promised to quit his position as president if he fails to win the election.

Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria and Ibrahim Shekarau of the All Nigerian Peoples Party also assured that they would accept defeat if the election was devoid of malpractices.

Jonathan and Buhari performed excellently well in their wards, while Ribadu and Shekarau were floored in theirs.

For instance, out of the 480 people that were accredited in the Otubula, 413 voted for the President.

Ribadu and Buhari scored no votes. Eleven votes were voided, while the remaining 56 accredited voters left without voting because of the long queue at the centre.

The President had impressive showing in Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Oyo, Plateau, Ekiti and Ondo states, where results from some polling centres indicated that he had the upper hand.

Almost all the results from the South-East had not been made public as at 9 pm on Saturday. But results from three wards in Abia State indicated that Jonathan won in two, while the CPC won in one.

In Sarkin Yara Ward, Buhari, a former Head of State, who on Thursday announced that Saturday’s election would be his last shot at the Presidency, scored 496 votes, while the PDP had no vote. The ANPP scored two and the ACN, two.

The CPC floored the PDP again in Vice-President Namadi Sambo’s polling booth in Kaduna State. It scored 435 votes, while the PDP had 208.

The PDP was said to have lost to the CPC in many polling booths in Kaduna, Katsina, Borno, Kogi, Abuja, Niger, Kano, and Gombe, where results were made public as 8 pm on Saturday.

Ribadu scored only 85 ballots in his ward in Yola town. The CPC had 260 votes, while the PDP had 64 votes.

Jonathan had while casting his vote promised to use himself as an example to teach sit-tight leaders in Africa that political power belonged to the people.

He said the result of the presidential poll would not cause political mayhem in Nigeria like in Ivory Coast, where Mr. Laurent Gbagbo refused to relinquish power after losing the November 2010 poll.

The President said that for democracy to be consolidated in Nigeria, politicians must learn to respect the power of the ballot.

He warned that democracy would be erected on a weak foundation if politicians attemptted to render the ballot paper useless.

Jonathan, however, said he was happy that the country’s democracy was being consolidated on the power of the ballot, observing that the ongoing elections had restored people’s confidence in the electoral process.

He recalled his involvement in elections conducted in 1999, 2003 and 2007 and concluded that Nigerians had shown more interest and commitment in the 2011 elections than they did in previous ones.

According to him, the massive turnout recorded on Saturday had further emphasised people’s belief in the credibility and transparency of the process.

Describing the conduct of the election as a new dawn in Nigeria, the President who was accompanied by a retinue of security officials said it was high time politicians realised that power belonged to the people.

He said as part of his insistence on a transparent process, he had refused to interfere with the operations of INEC.

Jonathan, who was accompanied by his wife, Patience and his mother, said he gave INEC freedom it required to give Nigerians their chosen leaders.

When asked his opinion about the possibility of a run-off, he prayed against such development.

Referring to the country’s large population and cost of organising another election, he prayed that the winner of the presidential election should emerge in the first ballot.

According to him, deciding the winner in the first ballot would reduce the tension in the country and minimise cost.

He said, “I’m indeed happy that we’re consolidating democracy. Democracy must be built on a solid foundation. Foundation of which democracy is built on is the power of the ballot paper. If the ballot paper means nothing, then there is no democracy. Nigeria is now experiencing true democracy where we the politicians have to go to the people because the power belongs to the people.

“The power does not belong to the politicians. It belongs to the people as expressed in ballot boxes. People have shown high degree of commitment so you can describe it as a new dawn in our political evolution.

“I promised I would contest the election as an incumbent president and I would not influence the electoral process. And that has been demonstrated in previous elections.

“I don’t know whether it will go into run-off. But I pray that we don’t go into such because of its implications. Nigeria is a very big country to conduct another round of election.

“If I lose. I will leave because that is what we are talking about.”

Buhari had before the results started trickling in alleged that thumb-printed ballot ballot papers were airlifted to different states in an attempt to compromise the presidential election.

He claimed that when one of the planes landed at the Katsina Airport, supporters of the CPC were chased away before the ‘consignment’ was off loaded.

“One of such planes came earlier this (Saturday) morning to Katsina airport, and our people were driven away from the airport before the consignment was off loaded and driven straight to the Government House,” he said.

The CPC presidential candidate however said he would not go to court to challenge the outcome of the election.

He stressed, however, that if he was taken to court, his party would rise to defend him.

In Kano, Shekarau said he would accept the outcome of the election so long as it was free, fair and credible.

Shekarau, while speaking with newsmen after casting his vote, advised that the winner and losers should take the result as it is.

“It is normal in any election where two or three people contested, a winner and a loser must emerge,” the Kano state governor said.

At Bako Ward in Yola-South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Ribadu said he will concede victory to any winner if the process is adjudged to be free and fair.

The ACN candidate, who cast his ballot around 1.15pm, assured Nigerians that he would be the first contestant to congratulate the winner.

“I will be the first person to congratulate the winner. I will be ready to join forces with him to move the country forward,” he added.

The election which witnessed mass turn out of voters in most parts of the country was described by foreign observers as an improvement on the April 9 National Assembly election.

One of the observer groups, the National Democratic Institute, led by a former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark said, “Things seem to be quite orderly.”

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