Counting was already underway in the West African oil exporting country’s presidential and parliamentary elections, with the final tally expected within five days.
Commission chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, told a news briefing in the capital Abuja that collated results from a handful of Nigeria’s 36 states would be announced from Sunday evening.
The race to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari was expected to be the closest in Nigeria’s history, with candidates from two parties that have alternated in power since the end of army rule in 1999 facing an unusually strong challenge from a minor party candidate popular among young voters.
A Reuters reporter saw people casting their votes at polling stations in Yenagoa city, in Nigeria’s oil-producing south, where polling could not take place in some parts on Saturday because election officers and materials did not arrive.
In one, voters stood on sandy, weed-choked ground checking for their names plastered…
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