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Nigeria is being original. Here unlike what is happening in many countries, you could vote from a jail cell

19 December 2014 Last updated at 12:31 ET
Nigeria court backs prisoners' vote, 19 December 2014 Last updated at 12:31 ET
BBC
A Nigeria court has ruled that prisoners should be able to vote in all national and local elections.

The ruling from the Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, comes ahead of closely-fought general elections in February 2015.

Earlier this year, there were nearly 57,000 prisoners across the country, the Nigerian Prisons Services said.

Almost 70% of these have not been convicted of a crime - many wait for their trials for several years.

"To deny inmates the right to vote is unconstitutional, illegal, irregular, unlawful, null and void and of no effect whatsoever," Justice Mohammed Lima said on Tuesday.
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good development

prisoner r denied freedom of movement not disenfranchised

All prison votes would go to PDP no doubt.

GenBuhari:
All prison votes would go to PDP no doubt.

GenBuhari:
All prison votes would go to PDP no doubt.

True that.