ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's ruling political party will pick its presidential candidate Thursday for the April election, a decision that delegates may make based on where the candidate is from rather than what he has to offer.

That vote, pitting President Goodluck Jonathan against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, highlights the religious and ethnic fault lines still running through the oil-rich nation of 250 ethnicities more than 40 years after its deadly civil war.

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