Voting in most parts of the country of 200 million people went smoothly on Saturday, and while there were scattered incidents of violence and intimidation, it was not on the scale seen in previous elections
The electoral commission said late on Saturday that official nationwide results could be expected from late on Sunday evening. The final election tally is expected within five days.
The main presidential contenders are former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu, 70, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, 76, of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, and former Anambra State governor Peter Obi, 61, of the smaller Labour Party. Outgoing President Buhari, a retired army general who was also once a military ruler in the 1980s, is stepping down after winning two previous elections and serving the maximum eight years permitted by the constitution.
Whoever wins will face a litany of crises in Nigeria, which is Africa’s top oil producer and the continent’s most populous nation. The country is struggling with Islamist insurgencies in the northeast, an epidemic of kidnappings for ransom, conflict between herders and farmers, shortages of cash, fuel and power, as well as deep-rooted corruption and poverty.
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