Feb. 17 - Robert Jackson on the Nigerian Presidential Election

Nigeria has postponed its Presidential elections for six weeks, till the end of March.  It did so against the strongly-expressed advice of Secretary of State John Kerry, but the key facts, the State Department’s second-ranking diplomat for African Affairs, Ambassador Robert Jackson told KSFR's Dave Marash on HERE AND THERE, are that the show must go on, and that the choices, between a somewhat ineffectual incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan and a former Army General, and some say, human rights abuser Muhammadou Buhari, are the choices. For the excerpt of this interview featured At Noon, Click Here. For the full episode of HERE AND THERE with Dave Marash, Click Here.