Nigerian opposition picks southerner as party chief ahead of election


  • World
  • Sunday, 15 Jun 2014

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's main opposition elected a veteran politician from the Christian south as its inaugural chairman on Saturday, as it looks to win voters on both sides of a religious divide and unseat President Goodluck Jonathan's party next year.

At its first national convention since being formed by the merger of four opposition parties last year, the All Progressives Congress (APC) elected 74-year-old John Odigie Oyegun to its top post in the early hours of Saturday, party officials said.

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