...(MADNEWS) -- Nigeria will not fall into violence over his decision to stand for elections next year, President Goodluck Jonathan said in an exclusive interview with CNN."I can tell you very clearly that violence will not break out because of my interests. I can tell you very clearly," Jonathan said in a wide-ranging interview at the presidential palace in Abuja ahead of October 1 celebrations marking 50 years of independence.
In September, Jonathan declared his intention to run in the October presidential primaries for his party, the People's Democratic Party.
Under Nigerian "zoning" rules, power must rotate between the north and the south every eight years.
Jonathan -- a native of the Niger Delta region in the south -- was vice president under President Umaru Yar'Adua, from the north, when he died in May three years into his first term.
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