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Bauchi's Hopeless Budget

April 17, 2012   // 0 Comments

By NASIR AHMAD EL-RUFAI As we explore the issue of Nigeria's missing federalism, we turn today to Bauchi as we focus on and analyze sub-national budgets, fiscal prudence and good governance. The state is one of the older states with the good fortune of being decently governed in the past – by people like General Sani Sami as military governor and, more recently, my former classmate Ahmed Adamu Mu...

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    but some thought President Mohammed Morsi might announce a delay in light of the violence. In fact

    but those who oppose the boycott fear that it would cement Islamist power. Under the first parliamentary elections

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    gave his customary Twitter resonse. "Called for parliamentary election boycott in 2010 to expose sham democracy

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    has already called on his followers not to participate in the elections

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    particularly in protest against well-publicised acts of police brutality. A victory in new elections in which the opposition refused to participitate would bring more of the increasingly violent prote

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    said that pressure was growing for a boycott to be announced after Tuesday's meeting of the opposition coalition

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    saying that the opposition cannot accept it as a legitimately elected government. Mr Moussa said: “We do not challenge the fact that the president was elected democratically and that he is the preside

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    the former head of the United Nations Atomic Energy Agency who first became a figurehead for the liberal opposition under President Hosni Mubarak and has maintained the same role under the Muslim Brot

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    the Muslim Brotherhood and the more radical Salafi parties took 70 per cent of the seats. The Brotherhood is dismissive of opposition calls for a national government

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    though he had to issue a new set of dates on Saturday after it was pointed out that the first two rounds coincided with Coptic Orthodox Palm Sunday and Easter. That was itself another sign of the lack

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    which are due to take place over several rounds starting in April. Mr Moussa said he would prefer his colleagues to consult before reaching a decision

    which would be time-limited to one year while the country was stabilised. He added: "My personal preference when it comes to elections is always to run and to join in the electoral process

    while several major cities are in open insurrection with general strikes and demonstrations shutting down industry and public facilities

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    whose preference for conducting politics by issuing occasional brief statements through Twitter has annoyed many liberals. Mr Moussa then went on to say a boycott would require unanimity or at least a

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    will not be part of an act of deception." The opposition claims that the election rules favour the better organised Islamists

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    ” he said. “Today I repeat my call