2007 Nigerian general election

===International===
A spokesman for the [[United States Department of State]] said it was "deeply troubled" by election polls, calling them "flawed", and said it hoped the political parties would resolve any differences over the election through peaceful, constitutional means.<ref name=Huge/>

"Nigeria has once again failed to rise to the occasion.... Size isn't enough.... It is a failed giant," said prominent [[Ghanaian people|Ghanaian]] economist [[Nii Moi Thompson]]. He compared its elections to [[2005 Liberian general election|those of Liberia in 2005]], saying, "Even Liberia, which is coming out of war, had more credible elections than Nigeria."<ref name="clay">Pascal Fletcher, [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20070424223012889C546506 "Polls show Africa's 'giant' has clay feet"], Reuters (''IOL''), 24 April 2007.</ref>

"There is the saying: 'How goes Nigeria, so goes the rest of Africa', to have this widespread abuse of the democratic initiative certainly doesn't do Africa any good," said Scott Baker, a professor at [[Champlain College]] in the US city of [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]], [[Vermont]].<ref name="thenationonlineng.net"/> "How can Nigeria sit at the meetings of the [[African Union]] [[African Peer Review Mechanism]] or [[Economic Community of West African States|ECOWAS]] and talk about other people's elections?" he asked.<ref name="clay"/>