Presidential election results

Nigerians voted on Saturday for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari in a tightly fought race, with three frontrunners for the first time in the ...

"It's a very important election because we need a total change," said fashion designer Titus Ojewale, 61, voting in the popular Lagos district, Yaba. "It's going to be different this time, we have three people," said Friday Ikwuako, 55, a school employee waiting to vote in the affluent Ikoyi district of Lagos. [Nigerians](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/nigeria/) angry and struggling more than usual in a country already hit by more than 20 percent inflation. Among the candidates in the race, three stand out: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the ruling party (APC), Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition party (PDP), and Peter Obi, backed by the Labour Party. For the first time since the end of military rule in 1999, a third serious candidate has emerged to challenge the dominance of the ruling [90 million people](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/nigeria/) are eligible to vote in [the election](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/presidential-elections/), which is taking place as Africa's most populous democracy grapples with a multi-front security crisis, a sluggish economy and widening poverty.

Nigeria dey vote who dia next leaders go be inside presidential and legislative elections. Di elections wey before be dey dey between di two main political ...

Dem announce final results on di third day afta voting for di last two elections, but dem fit come in earlier dis time sake of BVAS, wey also dey upload vote results directly to di Inec website direct from polling stations. Dis na di first time Inec go conduct national elections wit di use di Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), one facial and fingerprints technology wey dem tink say e go improve transparency as e go make am harder for politicians to rig di process. Di election don see huge interest from first-time voters and young pipo - one third of di 87 million eligible voters dey below 35 - wey fit lead to high voter turn-out than di 35% wey dem record for 2019.

Elections, which were supposed to start at 8:30 am, did not start early in many polling units across Nigeria.

Good journalism costs a lot of money. They are Atiku Abubakar of PDP, Bola Tinubu of APC, Peter Obi of Labour Party and Rabiu Kwankwaso of NNPP. But four are considered major contenders.

Results are already currently trickling in from Polling Units in the ongoing presidential and National Assembly elections. INEC officials have concluded.

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Welcome. Today, millions of Nigerians will elect the next President and National Assembly members. This is the seventh consecutive general election in this ...

This is reminiscent of the geo-political parallel in the country’s presidential election when Dr. He is flying the flag of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. One of the main contenders is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, a Yoruba, who had served for two terms as the Governor of Lagos State.

As the 2023 presidential election commences across Cross River State in southern Nigeria, security has been tightened in the capital city of Calabar.

Once they started at 8.30am, I took my turn got accredited, got my ballot papers and I cast my vote accordingly. As you can see now, I am going back to my house,” he said. On patrol from one street to another and around the city were teams of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air force, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, the Nigeria Police as well as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.