Elections for the governors of two states in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north have been postponed, officials have announced.
The delay follows days of deadly violence since Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south won Saturday’s presidential election. At least 200 people have been killed and several thousand injured in riots in northern areas.
The electoral commission said that the poll on Tuesday would not go ahead in Bauchi and Kaduna states, because of security concerns. The announcement came just hours after President Goodluck Jonathan vowed in a televised address to the nation that the elections for state governors would go ahead, as order was being restored to the nation.
Some 34 gubernatorial polls will go ahead as planned, said officials.
“My fellow countrymen and women, enough is enough,” Jonathan said in a televised address to the nation, on Thursday.