Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and his wife Stella greet the
crowd at a polling station after casting their votes during
presidential elections in the city centre of Abeokuta in Ogun State in
Nigeria April 19, 2003. Nigeria's police chief warned politicians and
their "thugs" on Friday that his 250,000 officers would show no mercy
to anyone who disrupted voting in Saturday's presidential elections.
REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya

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