Experts warn technical problems with vote, at crucial time for country, may lead to result being challenged and unrest
. The favourite remains Tinubu, from the ruling All Progressives Congress . Also in the running are Atiku Abubakar, of the main opposition People’s Democratic party ; and the Labour party’s Peter Obi.
Election officers count votes during the presidential election collection at the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday., showed Tinubu on more than 40%, with Abubakar on about 30% and Obi on less than 15% on Tuesday at around noon local time. If provisional votes yet to be officially declared by Inec were included, Obi would be in second place.
Though the contest is still relatively close, Nigerian electoral law makes a runoff unlikely as the winning candidate needs only a plurality of votes, provided they get 25% of the vote in at least two-thirds of the 36 states. On Monday night, Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president, warned of a “looming danger ahead” caused by the failure of systems that would electronically send results to a central computer.
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