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Nigerians will go to polls three times during April 2011: 2 April to elect their National Assembly (parliament); 9 April to elect their President; 16 April to elect State Assemblies and governors. The leading candidates are the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan (People's Democratic Party), Ibrahim Shekarau (All Nigeria Peoples Party), Muhammadu Buhari (Congress for Progressive Change) and Nuhu Ribadu (Action Congress of Nigeria). Inaugurated as Vice President in 2007, Jonathan (a Southern Christian) took up the presidency in February 2010 when President Yar'Adua (a Northern Muslim) resigned suffering terminal illness. Jonathan, the front-runner, is favoured to win. Shekarau, the governor of the Northern Sharia State of Kano, will campaign on the usual conservative Islamic platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). Former military dictator Gen. Buhari, another Northern Muslim, was the ANPP's unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2003 and 2007. Ribadu, a Southern Muslim and anti-corruption crusader, is running on a Muslim-Muslim ticket. Some stakeholders in the North are agitating for a strategic alliance between Buhari, Shekarau and Ribadu as the only way to rout Jonathan. Political violence is escalating. Nowhere will poll results be contested more fiercely than in flashpoint Jos, the capital of Plateau State in Nigeria's volatile Middle Belt. In1991 military dictator General Babangida, a Northern Muslim, decreed that Jos be divided into two smaller administrative units: Jos North and Jos South, with the actual city / CBD going to the Hausa Muslim 'settler' dominated Jos North. It is generally believed Babangida created Jos North specifically to empower the growing Hausa Muslim community. The battle for Jos has intensified over the past two decades, with attacks on the Christian community escalating markedly. Tensions are soaring in advance of the elections. On 11 March Special Task Force officers seized a truck laden with ammunition and sophisticated bomb-making equipment as it crossed from Kaduna into Plateau bound for Jos. Investigations are under way. On Sunday morning 20 March two Hausa Muslim would-be bombers died when three of the bombs they were transporting exploded en route. The massive blast occurred at Dualla junction in Nasarawa, Jos North Local Government Area, destroying shops and rocking the nearby ECWA (Evangelical Church Winning All) and COCIN (Church of Christ in Nigeria) churches which are known now were the intended targets.

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