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Nigeria’s electoral commission announces some early results | Elections News

Nigeria announced some early results from the national elections on Sunday, although the winner of the race to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari will not be known for the next few days.

Elections in Africa’s most populous country For the most part, it was peaceful, although some polling stations were looted and others started late.

Nearly 90 million people were eligible to vote on Saturday to choose Buhari’s successor, with many Nigerians hoping the new leader will do a better job of tackling unrest, economic turmoil and poverty. increase.

Votes in the presidential and parliamentary elections are collated in each of Nigeria’s 36 states before the votes are sent to the electoral commission’s central vote counting center in the capital, Abuja.

The first results, from Ekiki state, showed a majority of presidential votes in favor of Bola Tinubu of the ruling Progressive Congress (APC).

Tinubu garnered more than 200,000 votes in the state, compared with less than half the total vote for Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition PDP and just over 11,000 for Peter Obi of the Labor Party.

Nigerian Election Commission (INEC) Chairman Mahmood Yakubu adjourned the session after the first results and said the announcement of the vote counting results would resume at 11am (10:00 GMT) on Monday.

Voting had to be extended to Sunday in some parts of the country following Saturday’s incident, but counting has been underway since polls closed, with final results expected. within five days.

It is not yet clear whether all voting in the West African oil-exporting country has ended.

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Earlier on Sunday, the PDP’s candidate, Abubakar, urged INEC to upload the results immediately after accusing several state governors of trying to mediate the results.

“It would be a detriment to Nigerians and a negation of democracy for anyone to want to overthrow the will of the people as freely expressed in the cards,” he said in a statement. their vote yesterday.

When he was defeated by Buhari in the 2019 election, Abubakar claimed massive fraud. The Supreme Court finally upheld its challenge.

Labor Party chairman Julius Aure also accused election officials of failing to upload results from parts of Lagos and the southern Delta State to help the APC candidate take power.

The Yiaga Africa observer group said it was “deeply concerned about the delay” in the results.

But INEC said problems uploading results to its IReV data page were due to “technical problems” and there was no risk of tampering.

“The Commission wishes to assure Nigerians that these challenges are not caused by any intrusion or vandalism of our systems,” it said in a statement.

“It is important to avoid statements and actions that could heat up the polity at this time.”

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom, reporting from Abuja, said that the delay in uploading preliminary results by the election commission had caused “a lot of astonishment” among political parties, candidates and voters. tri.

Based on their statement, “the election commission is concerned,” Jamjoom said.

“They want to reassure people that there is no wrongdoing here, that this is just a technical glitch. But I’ll tell you that the longer people wait here, the more we hear from people in Abuja, that they’re worried about what all this means and what the delay might mean. how to the coming things in the country.

“People are stressed, they want to get those results, they want to know who will be the next leader of this country at such an important time.

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The commission has 14 days to officially announce the results, but the results of the online tally will be made available in the next few days.

To be elected president, a candidate must receive the most votes but also win at least 25 percent of the vote in two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states.

Some states must win. Lagos has the largest number of registered voters with more than 7 million, followed by two states in the largely Muslim north of the country, Kano and Kaduna states.

The competitive run-up has some analysts predicting an unprecedented run-in between the two leading candidates if neither candidate meets the electoral requirements. It will have to be held within 21 days.



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