Nigeria's ruling party candidate has been declared president-elect of Africa's most populous nation in the early hours of Wednesday after a weekend election disputed by the main opposition parties.
Opposition parties rejected the results as the product of a flawed processBola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state, will take over leadership of a country grappling with Islamist insurgencies in the north-east, armed attacks, killings and kidnappings, conflict between livestock herders and farmers, cash, fuel and power shortages, and perennial corruption that opponents said Muhammadu Buhari's party has failed to stamp out despite promises to do so.
Opposition parties rejected the results as the product of a flawed process, which suffered multiple technical difficulties owing to the introduction of new technology by INEC, and on Tuesday called on its chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, to resign. Mr Obi's campaign attracted young people and urban, more educated voters fed up with corrupt politics of the past, the two parties that have represented it since the end of military rule in 1999, and old men who have tended to dominate them.The opposition People's Democratic Party, Labour Party and a smaller party rejected the results.
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