ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation yesterday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt.
But the move is not contemplated in the constitution, legal experts say, and could cause more friction between the Christian south, which gains the presidency at least temporarily, and the Muslim north, which finds itself out of the seat of power.
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