Both houses of Nigeria’s parliament have confirmed newly sworn President Goodluck Jonathan’s choice of Kaduna state governor Namadi Sambo as the country’s new vice-president. Observers believe that by choosing the relatively unknown Sambo Jonathan, a northerner (Jonathan comes from the south), has revealed his intention to run for a full term in the country’s 2011 elections. But what would have made anyone think Jonathan would otherwise not have run? No matter how anyone read the tea leaves the result was likely to be the same: Jonathan running in 2011.
