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"More than 70 million Nigerians are expected to go to the polls Saturday to choose a president. But Rashida Adaune will not be among them...

"Joe Clark, a former prime minister of Canada who is in the country with the National Democratic Institute observer mission, said Nigeria's electoral commission, the INEC, was 'far more committed to free and fair elections than INEC in 2007. We were very impressed by what we saw in the field on April 9. We will see tomorrow whether it continues, and I think everyone expects it will. I think the expectation is that this election will be appreciably better than 2007.'"

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