Charade or Legitimate: The Road To Democracy In Nigeria.

"The election was a charade. A democratic arrangement founded on such fraud can have no legitimacy," cried opponents, as current President Obasanjo's hand picked successor, Umaru Yar'Adua of the ruling People's Democratic Party (larger photo), is declared the Presidential contest winner. Obasanjo (smaller picture) urged calm amid opposition's call for the results to be annulled and eerily pronounced "that results so far did not deviate from projections"!

Is that another way of acknowledging the oppositions' claim that the voting was a "charade", since the outcome was as "projected"?