Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, said Thursday that the current post-election riots evoked events that led to civil war of 1967 or the Biafran war, adding that security had been tightened nationwide. "These acts of disorder are sad reminders of the events that have plunged our country into thirty months of an unfortunate civil war," the president said in a speech to the nation.
In 1967, secession and proclaimed a "Republic of Biafra" had triggered a civil war until January 1970, which killed more than a million dead. The riots that shook since Sunday evening in the northern half of the predominantly Muslim countries in the aftermath of the presidential election which saw the victory of Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian, made more than two hundred deaths, according to the NGO Civil Rights Congress.
President Jonathan said the gubernatorial elections, scheduled April 26, would proceed as planned. The riots cast doubt on the ability of countries to maintain the election at which shall be elected governors and assemblies of the thirty-six states of the federation of Nigeria. It will be the third and final stage of the marathon election law committed with the 9 April and continued with the presidential election last Saturday. 
In 1967, secession and proclaimed a "Republic of Biafra" had triggered a civil war until January 1970, which killed more than a million dead. The riots that shook since Sunday evening in the northern half of the predominantly Muslim countries in the aftermath of the presidential election which saw the victory of Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian, made more than two hundred deaths, according to the NGO Civil Rights Congress.
President Jonathan said the gubernatorial elections, scheduled April 26, would proceed as planned. The riots cast doubt on the ability of countries to maintain the election at which shall be elected governors and assemblies of the thirty-six states of the federation of Nigeria. It will be the third and final stage of the marathon election law committed with the 9 April and continued with the presidential election last Saturday.
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