WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States pressed Nigeria's caretaker president on Tuesday to revamp the oil giant's tattered election machinery, saying it must hold credible polls in 2011 or risk increased instability.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson said acting President Goodluck Jonathan, who stepped in this month to fill the power vacuum left by President Umaru Yar'Adua's near three-month absence in a Saudi hospital, was making a good start but that Africa's largest oil producer remained in dangerous political territory.
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