Election

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According to Yakubu, the election will hold alongside the governorship polls on March 11.

Consequently, the commission has suspended the election in the senatorial district as provided by law.” The INEC chairman added, “We have already communicated this decision to our Enugu State office. “We have taken sufficient steps to fortify and protect our systems and processes. I can confirm that we have now received a formal communication from the party informing the commission of the death of its candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District. This request is in line with the provision of the law. We successfully transmitted results for 105 constituencies nationwide.

Nigerians are going to the polls for a crucial presidential vote that will see the country's next leader elected. The hotly contested poll is being held ...

One of the key contenders is Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of term-limited President Muhammadu Buhari’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). In the absence of this, a second round run-off between the top two candidates will be held within 21 days. [torched](https://twitter.com/inecnigeria/status/1620840000366706688) in [parts of the country](https://twitter.com/inecnigeria/status/1603834780084207617). Another is the main opposition leader and former vice president Atiku Abubakar, of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Nigerians are going to the polls for a crucial presidential vote that will see the country’s next leader elected. ET Saturday to 8:30 a.m. [ordered a restriction](https://www.facebook.com/ngpolice/posts/pfbid0umW2Mdwz5g75MszYm9DDrATeXKm8NUAr2xbZtgxNSnGZHwhBQo4LLytF8bawAq5Fl) of non-essential vehicular and waterway movements from midnight on election day until 6 p.m., while the country’s immigration service has ordered the [closure of Nigeria’s land borders](https://twitter.com/nigimmigration/status/1628864155439534080) from midnight Saturday until midnight Sunday. [aiding the election](https://www.channelstv.com/2022/06/02/without-me-buhari-wouldnt-have-become-president-tinubu/) of Buhari to the presidency and declares it is now his turn to lead the country. [shot and burned in his campaign vehicle ](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/23/africa/senatorial-candidate-killed-nigeria-intl/index.html)in the country’s southeastern Enugu State, police said. Polls open from 8:30 a.m. (or 2:30 a.m. [said](https://twitter.com/inecnigeria/status/1625800743201525763).

Nigerians vote on Saturday for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari in a tightly fought race dominated by three political veterans.

INEC has given no timeline for results, but votes are expected to be tallied within a few days. Around 400,000 police and troops will be deployed around the country to protect the vote. This time, Tinubu is a southern Yoruba Muslim, Atiku is an ethnic Fulani Muslim from the northeast and Peter Obi is a Christian Igbo from the southeast. To win the presidency, a candidate must get the most votes, but also win 25 percent in two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states. But the emergence of a surprise third candidate appealing to young voters, Labour Party’s Peter Obi, 61, has thrown the race open for the first time since the end of military rule in 1999. For the first time in Nigeria’s modern history, a third candidate has emerged to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Voters in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, head to the polls Saturday to cast ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections.

The top presidential candidates this year signed a peace accord on Wednesday, to ensure a peaceful election. The election commission has not said when it expects to declare official results. All three of the main presidential candidates have made improving the economy and strengthening security their main priorities. The electoral commission has also set up a system to identify voters through fingerprints and facial recognition, to curb voter fraud. Voters in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, head to the polls Saturday to cast ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections. There are three main presidential candidates running to succeed him and the race is seen as the most competitive since the country switched from military rule to democracy in 1999.

Third-party candidate Peter Obi is looking to upset contenders from Nigeria's two main political parties: Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar.

Since the cash shortage started a few weeks ago, she said she was barely selling anything and is no longer making enough money to feed herself or her children regularly. Buhari last week said the policy would help lay “a strong foundation for free and fair elections” in Nigeria, which has a long history of vote-buying. Propelled by the frustrations of young people, who make up nearly 40 percent of the electorate, third-party candidate Peter Obi is vying to upset two of Nigeria’s most seasoned politicians.