The Nigerian Electoral Commission released state-level election results on Sunday. The panel will most likely not choose Buhari’s successor for days.
Since the end of military rule in 1999, people from two different parties have taken turns being in charge. Making the next presidential election the most closely contested in Nigeria’s history.
The Election Commission’s Central Vote Counting Center in Abuja receives presidential and parliamentary election results from each of Nigeria’s 36 states.
Tinubu got almost 200,000 state votes, compared to less than half for the PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, the main opposition, and only 11,000 for the Labor Party’s Peter Obi.
After the preliminary results, commission chairman Mahmood Yakubu paused the hearing. Thereafter, he stated that the results will be announced on Monday at 11:00 a.m.
Due to Saturday issues, several localities had to extend voting into Sunday. Although counting has continued after polling stations closed. In addition, definitive results are projected within five days.
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At a voting booth, voters verified their names, which were connected to a half-built concrete home, while standing on a floor of growing sand.
Even though some of the voting machines in the northeastern part of Borno state broke down on Sunday, voting still went on.
Furthermore, voting was calm in much of the 200 million-person country. This election was less violent than others, despite occasional violence and intimidation.
Election observer Rakiya Muhammad claimed an armed group raided an apartheid center in Takai, northern Kano state, on Sunday before security police arrived.
Nigeria faces Northeast Islamist insurgencies, herdsman-farmer clashes, money, fuel, and electricity shortages. In addition to corruption and entrenched poverty.
This regime was the worst of my life. For two days, I didn’t eat. Ahmad Sulaiman, 49, who sells handbags, said.
“I voted because I wanted change,” he continued, refusing to identify his candidate of choice.
