Nigerian state votes in test for president

[YahooNews]

Awka (Nigeria) (AFP) - Nigeria's Anambra state went to the polls on Saturday to choose its next governor, with the result viewed as a benchmark of public support for the country's president before a national vote in 2015. Some 1.8 million voters are registered to decide the successor to incumbent Peter Obi, who steps down in March next year after completing a maximum two, four-year terms. A 24-hour restriction of movement in and out of Anambra was put in place at 6:00 pm on Friday. "It (the election) is going fine for now but not without isolated challenges" such as the delivery of election material to some polling stations, said Kayode Idowu, a spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).