Each of the three frontrunners in Nigeria's hotly contested presidential election claimed Monday they are on the path to victory as preliminary results trickled in two days after Africa's most populous nation went to the polls.
Only four of Nigeria's 36 states had officially announced results by midday Monday, with three of those going to ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu. The fourth was won by main opposition party candidate Atiku Abubakar.
A runoff election will be held if no candidate secures at least one-quarter of the votes from two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states and the capital city, in addition to receiving the highest number of votes. Observers from the missions of the African Union and the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS said that the election was generally "encouraging" except for isolated cases of violence that disrupted voting in some states."If the information we are beginning to receive from various parts of the country is anything to go by, one has every reason to be optimistic that our candidate will win," Abdullahi Adamu, the party chairman, told the state-run News Agency of Nigeria.
"We are far ahead and we are already leading and we are winning in 24 states," said Yunusa Tanko, spokesman for the Labour Party. Its candidate, Obi, is a surprise frontrunner in what is usually a two-horse race, with his popularity surging in polls weeks ahead of the vote. The party accused election officials of not being present in their strongholds and said some of their supporters were denied the opportunity to vote.
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