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For weeks, Africa’s giant has stumbled towards a pivotal moment in its history: an election so close that, for once, the incumbent wasn’t guaranteed a win the ballot box. It was the clearest sign yet of democracy taking root in Nigeria, a country which ostensibly shed military rule a decade and a half ago.
That moment has been, temporarily at least, halted in its tracks by a letter which the top electoral commissioner received early last week.
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