ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) - after opened polls in Nigeria on Saturday, have been postponed parliamentary elections suddenly for two days because, officials said, many areas still had to get voting materials.
The problems were a major blow to hopes for a break with a history of here electoral chaos and fraud. Failed election could raise issues such as well-entrenched democracy, more than a decade after the end of military rule is.
In a televised speech Saturday, Attahiru Jega, head which independent National Electoral Commission, said: "The decision we have made is indeed important, but it is an important step in ensuring the credibility of the elections in 2011 on."
But the opposition in question the legitimacy provided the translation.
"Our first reaction is that we suspect a deliberate attempt to sabotage the elections and undermine the Electoral Commission," said Yinka Odumakin, a spokesman for Muhammadu Buhari, former military ruler and the main rival of President Goodluck Jonathan in presidential elections that are expected to take place in a week one. Mr Buhari said Mr Jonathan's Party "Fear, so that people come and vote."
The voting materials were not in the capital Abuja and other regions, such as rivers, Bayelsa State and Akwa Ibom States in the southern oil of producing Niger Delta, Plateau State in the Central "Middle Belt" and Borno arrived in the remote Northeast.
"At the moment I ballot, for the House of representatives, but no results leaves," said Maria OWI, resident electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State. "For the Senate I have leaves but no ballot results."
Mr Jega placed blame for the delay on an error in the will voters be timely delivered materials Nigeria from the outside, but said he was confident that everything in place of the vote would be action on Monday.
For any proposal of a delay in the presidential election or a week later for the nation vote 36 governors Mr Jega. The Electoral Commission has harder implement measures to prevent, fraud and intimidation which made such width doubt following the recent elections in the year 2007, that foreign observers said might reflect them not the will of the people.
Voters at polling stations Saturday's two most populous cities of the country register eagerly collected had - the commercial hub of Lagos in the South and Kano in the North - but elsewhere, tempers have been frayed by the delays. Shots in the Niger Delta volatile oil producing raised also worry the violence.
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