Insight - Why Nigeria's restive oil region will only accept Jonathan


  • World
  • Monday, 02 Mar 2015

A billboard campaigning for the re-election of Bayelsa state governor Seriake Dickson is displayed next to one for People's Democratic Party candidates, along a road in Yenagoa in Nigeria's Bayelsa state February 28, 2015. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

OTUOKE, Nigeria (Reuters) - The most impressive building in Otuoke, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's home town in the oil producing Niger Delta, is the multistory mansion complex he has built for himself and close family while in office.

A few hundred metres away, the street where he grew up is a jumble of rusting iron-roofed shacks. Down a dirt side alley, Happiness Ebi smokes fish on a charcoal barbecue, a staple in this swampy southern region.

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