KADUNA, Nigeria - the choice of incumbent Goodluck Jonathan made that gap between Nigeria's predominantly Christian shows raw South and North, Muslim how quickly the country's latent religious and economic tensions can erupt in violence.
Funding agencies estimated Wednesday killed more than 100 people in violence which were flashed in Northern Nigeria, after Mr Jonathan, a Christian from the South, was elected with about 60% of the nationwide vote. Mr Jonathan has now the difficult task from attempting to the nation, Africa's most populous and a growing destination for foreign investment to settle down.
The city of Kaduna has many of the problems, the fuel riots in Northern Nigeria, including high poverty and youth unemployment have contributed. Had his Kabala littered neighborhood, West with small shops and one-storey houses, is home to Christians and Muslims, who together lived in relative peace.
On the Saturday morning met almost 1,000 voters cast ballots in a predominantly Muslim part of Kabala West. A rumor spread that Christian voters in the neighboring polling unit had prevented Muslim observers from entering the unit.
Several dozen young Muslim men went in the direction of the next Church, say that a ballot box was it disappears. Arguments in shoving matches turned.
Police came then the military. The day vote of resumed.
The outbreak was sparked by the young people misunderstanding a business of this area seemed cut political leaders with regard to the observer had, the each party sends monitor polling stations. According to residents and members of the two main parties in Nigeria - Christians and Muslims alike – the activists agreed peace in Kabala West on Saturday with the agreed, that members who were Muslim monitor votes in the Christian areas would not to keep, and Christians would not enter predominantly Muslim areas.
"It was a long understanding in this area, during the vote, Hausa [Muslim] observers here come would not", said James Sako, 59-year-old trader in a nearby Christian area.
When security agreed forces appeared, calm, to restore Christian and Muslim observers back to their respective posts.
But later on this evening, unknown suspect a bomb in the happy night threw hotel on the Christian quarter, injured were eight patrons, two critical.
It was one of the many outbreaks in Kaduna, Nigeria, the site of several sectarian clashes in the last decade. The local Government has tried, such violence by separation of the Muslim and Christian population, partly by promoting Christian inhabitants on the southern part of the city move to reduce. Residents say that the steps have largely worked. But tensions quickly to close combat.
During the vote on Saturday a group of young men, ran with the West life towards entry points in a walled off of walls Christian section of Kabala wooden clubs. Women within rushed their children. A man his clothes washing machine head within interrupted and to lock his door.
On Sunday in Kaduna, Nigeria, voting results showed that Mr Jonathan main rival was former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, the gain in the Northern States. His supporters celebrated.
But in the evening, national results showed Mr Jonathan will return to the South and the choice to win. Celebrations turned to violence. Supporters of Mr Buhari burned houses of people, Christians as well as high-profile were Muslim leaders who thought, Mr Jonathan have secured.
Unrest spread early to Nigeria's North Monday and Tuesday. Churches, mosques and houses were burned. Hundreds of people were injured and many thousands were suppressed, according to Nigerian Red Cross has published its final death toll not.
On Monday evening, Mr Jonathan put in his acceptance speech in the capital Abuja for peace. But Nigeria has a number of politicians who do not easily accept defeat.
Mr Buhari Party Congress for progressive change, rejected most of the results, although it local and international election monitors of the country's most credible choice in decades called.
Mr Buhari, the elections contested in 2003, and 2007 has distanced himself and his party from the violence. In a statement on Wednesday, he told his followers that "it is wrong, if you perpetrators your ranks and enable as places make the senseless destruction of worship to such dastardly acts."
Residents of Kaduna said that a curfew imposed has kept quiet the Government, which easily facilitated Wednesday, things. Still, they fear what lies under the current peace.
Monday "was crazy, there was almost war", said Lalas ABBA, a DJ on the bomb hit happy night is 33 years old, hotel. "If you outside, before you know it, you can only shot to get."
