Politics Goodluck Jonathan Faces Challenge from Anti-corruption Ex-general -Financial Times

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Muhammadu Buhari, who could emerge as the main challenger to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan at next year’s elections, is positioning himself as the strongman needed to root out corruption and roll back the brutal Islamist insurgency tearing at the country.

“We are almost over the cliff,” says the 71-year old former general, who seized power in 1983 and ruled Africa’s most populous nation with authoritarian zeal before being overthrown by rival generals 20 months later.

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[Tannoy]

I'm not a smart man, but if somebody's going to use anticorruption to beat you at the polls, why don't you beat him to it (or at least appear to have beaten him to it?)

But then again, polls don't matter, so carry on sir.