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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nigeria-president-wins-primary-vote.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="President Goodluck Jonathan has won the endorsement of Nigeria's ruling party (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-nigeria-president-wins-primary-vote.jpg" alt="President Goodluck Jonathan has won the endorsement of Nigeria's ruling party (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>President Goodluck Jonathan, who took on his nation&#8217;s top job only after the death of the country&#8217;s elected leader, has won the endorsement of oil-rich Nigeria&#8217;s ruling party.</p>
<p>The victory makes him the overwhelming favourite to win in the April presidential election.</p>
<p>Jonathan cast himself as the leader able to change a nation both blessed by natural resources but cursed by years of military dictatorships. </p>
<p>However, the regional and religious tensions that flared up during the primary persist across a country troubled by violence and extremism more than 40 years after the end of its brutal civil war.</p>
<p>As the candidate of the People&#8217;s Democratic Party, Jonathan can expect the party to use its political connections, money and muscle to propel him to victory in Nigeria&#8217;s unruly and corrupt electoral system. Since the handover in 1999 from military rule to a civilian government, politics in Africa&#8217;s most populous nation have been dominated by the party.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have a chance to transform ourselves to be a great nation in the years ahead,&#8221; Jonathan told delegates gathered for the convention in Nigeria&#8217;s capital, Abuja.</p>
<p>He offered a promise that won a cheer from the crowd: &#8220;Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and (Vice President) Nnmadi Sambo will never, never, never let you down.&#8221;</p>
<p>The president, dressed in the traditional black caftan and bowler hat of his Niger Delta home, focused on issues his young administration hopes to improve over the next four years. </p>
<p>Top among them is a plan to privatise the nation&#8217;s decrepit state-run power company. As of now, only those who can afford private generators have reliable electricity.</p>
<p>His main challenger, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, hammered the president in a speech over rising debit and growing insecurity in a country divided between a predominantly Christian south and a Muslim north.</p>
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