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Vol 61 No 16

Published 6th August 2020


Nigeria

In Edo, all politics is national

State elections next month in the heart of what was once West Africa’s biggest empire is testing the coherence of the country’s two main parties

Last month, a massive new video screen appeared at the busiest intersection in Benin City, centre of a once towering kingdom and now capital of Edo state. Where the region's most formidable warriors used to battle for control of the terrain, besuited politicians with bags of money and seductive promises now vie for electoral supremacy.

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