Lagos, Nigeria, Apr 28, 2011 / 14:43 pm
A Nigerian bishop said corrupt leaders play a significant part in the violence that has killed at least 500 people in the last week.
“The mindless violence, killing and destruction in some states of Northern Nigeria, is a tragedy almost definitely instigated and fueled by people and forces who are bent on keeping Nigeria in the dark ages of corruption and fraud and are powerful enough to do so,” said Bishop Emmanuel Ade Badejo of Oyo.
Civil strife broke out across the predominantly Muslim north when the results from the April 16 presidential election showed President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south, had won.
Many in the north believe someone from their region should be in power because the elected Muslim president died last year before he could finish his term.