The elections in Nigeria due in April are Africa's most important in a crowded electoral year. Much depends on their outcome: the country's nascent anti-corruption plan, the stability of the continent's most populous country, even a possible resolution of an insurgency in the Niger Delta region that threatens one of the West's most important sources of oil. So it made quite a stir last week when the government's anti-corruption watchdog launched a pre-emptive strike on the electoral process that could affect the course of the campaign—and even the result itself.
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