Nigerians gathered to vote in a few parts of the country where technical and other glitches prevented a national election from taking place the previous day, even as vote-counting was underway in other places. | Reuters
The commission said late on Saturday that election would continue in several wards in Yenagoa, which lies in Nigeria’s oil-producing south, and where there were cases of election officers and materials failing to turn up on Saturday.
The presidential race is to replace outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari, a retired army general, who was also once a military ruler in the 1980s. He is stepping down after winning two previous elections and serving the maximum eight years permitted by the constitution. Nigeria 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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