Tensions rise in Nigeria as opposition demands new vote
1 year, 9 months ago

Tensions rise in Nigeria as opposition demands new vote

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Nigeria's opposition demanded a revote Tuesday for the country’s presidential election, where the partial results show an early lead for the ruling party. At a press conference in the capital Abuja, the three main opposition parties said the election was an insult to democracy and called for Nigeria's election chief to resign. The ruling party — the All Progressives Congress — candidate, Bola Tinubu is in the lead winning six states with the main opposition candidate from the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, trailing closely with five. Parties have three weeks to appeal results, but an election can’t be invalidated unless it proves that the national electoral body largely didn’t follow the law and conducted actions which could change the final result.

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Nigeria’s Supreme Court affirms Tinubu’s presidential victory
1 year, 1 month ago

Nigeria’s Supreme Court affirms Tinubu’s presidential victory

Al Jazeera  

Nigeria’s highest court dismisses the opposition’s claims of fraud and electoral law violations. Nigeria’s Supreme Court has upheld the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ending months of legal battles over the presidential race. Tinubu, a 71-year-old former governor of the capital, Lagos, was elected president in February in the closest race in Nigeria’s modern history. Legal tussles The two …

Opposition supporters saddened as tribunal upholds President Tinubu’s win
1 year, 3 months ago

Opposition supporters saddened as tribunal upholds President Tinubu’s win

Al Jazeera  

Nigerian opposition supporters say the tribunal’s ruling was expected but were nevertheless waiting for a surprise. Lagos, Nigeria – On Wednesday night, Nigeria’s presidential election tribunal upheld Bola Tinubu’s victory in the highly disputed presidential election of February 25, causing opposition supporters to despair about the state of the country. The election was a tightly-contested affair between Tinubu who is …

Nigeria swears in a new president facing profound economic and security pressures
1 year, 6 months ago

Nigeria swears in a new president facing profound economic and security pressures

NPR  

Nigeria swears in a new president facing profound economic and security pressures Enlarge this image toggle caption Sunday Aghaeze/AP Sunday Aghaeze/AP LAGOS, Nigeria - Bola Tinubu has been sworn in as Nigeria's president, at a ceremony in the capital Abuja. The 71-year-old comes to power following a disputed election and under pressure to quickly improve the economy and security in …

Nigeria's opposition Labour Party appeals to overturn election result
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigeria's opposition Labour Party appeals to overturn election result

Firstpost  

Obi asked the Appeals Court to invalidate the election won by Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress party, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission of breaching the law by failing to use electronic machines to upload polling station results Abuja : Nigeria’s opposition Labour Party candidate Peter Obi has filed a petition seeking to cancel results from last …

Nigeria elects Bola Tinubu as President but results reveal cracks within
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigeria elects Bola Tinubu as President but results reveal cracks within

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 21, 2023 17:44 IST - 10 MINS READ Nigerians went to the polls in the last week of February to elect a new President. After a few days of uncertainty, the Nigerian Independent National Election Commission finally announced that the winner was the 70-year-old Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressive Congress. Atiku Abubakar of the main …

Nigeria president-elect faces vote doubts, poverty, violence
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigeria president-elect faces vote doubts, poverty, violence

Associated Press  

ABUJA, Nigeria — The newly elected president of Nigeria is the first person chosen to lead the country with less than 50% of the vote. The former governor of Lagos state boldly told party members last year: “It’s my turn!” speaking in the Yoruba indigenous language. “He’s that powerful that not even a sitting governor in Lagos from his party …

Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu declared winner of presidential vote
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu declared winner of presidential vote

Associated Press  

ABUJA, Nigeria — Election officials declared Bola Tinubu the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election Wednesday, keeping the ruling party in power in Africa’s most populous nation and raising the specter of protests by opposition supporters who already have called for the vote to be voided. Tinubu urged Nigerians to unite behind his administration after he takes office on May 29. …

Nigeria's Bola Tinubu Declared Winner Of Presidential Vote
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigeria's Bola Tinubu Declared Winner Of Presidential Vote

Huff Post  

Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, center, celebrates with supporters at the party's campaign headquarters after winning the presidential elections in Abuja, Nigeria, on March 1, 2023. Election officials declared ruling party candidate Tinubu the winner of Nigeria's presidential election with the two leading opposition candidates already demanding a re-vote in Africa's most populous nation. AP Photo/Ben Curtis ABUJA, …

Bola Tinubu is Nigeria's president-elect: Why is an angry Opposition calling for fresh elections?
1 year, 9 months ago

Bola Tinubu is Nigeria's president-elect: Why is an angry Opposition calling for fresh elections?

Firstpost  

The Opposition in Nigeria has rejected the presidential election results which declared the ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu as the winner. “I demand that this sham of an election be cancelled and we call on INEC to conduct fresh elections within the window period provided by the electoral act,” Julius Abure, chairman of Obi’s Labour Party, said, as per BBC. …

Bola Tinubu declared winner in Nigeria’s presidential election
1 year, 9 months ago

Bola Tinubu declared winner in Nigeria’s presidential election

The Hindu  

Election officials declared ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu the winner of Nigeria's presidential election early on March 1, with the two leading opposition candidates already demanding a revote in Africa's most populous nation. Mr. Tinubu "having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” said the country’s election chief, Mahmood Yakubu. The announcement …

Bola Tinubu wins controversial Nigerian presidential election
1 year, 9 months ago

Bola Tinubu wins controversial Nigerian presidential election

Al Jazeera  

Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress, has won the popular vote in the disputed election. Bola Tinubu, the politician long heralded as the “father of modern Lagos”, has won a tight race to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the next president of Nigeria. Tinubu, “having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned …

Bola Tinubu, the declared winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, appeals for unity
1 year, 9 months ago

Bola Tinubu, the declared winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, appeals for unity

LA Times  

Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu, center, celebrates with supporters at his party’s campaign headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. Nigerians awoke to a newly chosen president Wednesday, with ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu declared the winner of the weekend’s election. Tinubu’s ruling All Progressives Congress party urged the opposition Tuesday to accept defeat and not cause trouble after they had demanded a …

Tensions rise in Nigeria as opposition demands new vote
1 year, 9 months ago

Tensions rise in Nigeria as opposition demands new vote

The Hindu  

Nigeria's opposition demanded a revote on Tuesday for the country's presidential election, where the partial results show an early lead for the ruling party. At a press conference in the capital Abuja, the three main opposition parties said the election was an insult to democracy and called for Nigeria's election chief to resign. “The conduct of the 2023 election has …

Nigeria's opposition parties call elections a 'sham' and demand a new vote
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigeria's opposition parties call elections a 'sham' and demand a new vote

NPR  

Nigeria's opposition parties call elections a 'sham' and demand a new vote Enlarge this image toggle caption Ben Curtis/AP Ben Curtis/AP ABUJA, Nigeria — The main Nigerian opposition parties are calling for a rerun of the country's presidential election, saying Saturday's vote was marred by violence and rigging and that they've lost any confidence in electoral authorities. Enlarge this image …

Bola Tinubu leads in Nigeria election, opposition seeks new vote
1 year, 9 months ago

Bola Tinubu leads in Nigeria election, opposition seeks new vote

Al Jazeera  

Three opposition parties call for cancellation of the election, as the ruling party candidate is in the lead, with results from 19 of 36 states announced. “We are therefore constrained to state that INEC compromised the integrity of the election even before collation began … We have therefore arrived at the conclusion that the election has been irretrievably compromised.” The …

Who’s leading the Nigeria election? All to know about the results
1 year, 9 months ago

Who’s leading the Nigeria election? All to know about the results

Al Jazeera  

Voters and observer missions have highlighted failures of the electoral commission and violence at polling units as election results are awaited. Indeed, Al Jazeera verified that as of 10:54 am, only 46 percent or 81,569 result sheets of the 176,846 polling units nationwide, had been uploaded to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s portal. On election day, the statement added, trust …

Nigeria presidential election results 2023 by the numbers
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigeria presidential election results 2023 by the numbers

Al Jazeera  

Former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Nearly 90 million people were eligible to vote in Africa’s largest democracy, with many Nigerians hoping a new leader will do a better job …

Nigeria Presidential Elections 2023: Technical issues in counting of votes delay results
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigeria Presidential Elections 2023: Technical issues in counting of votes delay results

Firstpost  

Abuja: Tens of millions of votes are being counted as election officials in Nigeria wait anxiously to see who will win the presidency and control of the national parliament in Africa’s most populous nation. Early expectations that official results for the entire country could be anticipated starting late on Sunday seem overly optimistic in light of the serious technical issues …

Voters, observers hopeful as Nigeria presidential election begins
1 year, 9 months ago

Voters, observers hopeful as Nigeria presidential election begins

Al Jazeera  

Eighteen candidates are jostling to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as president but only four are frontrunners in the race. “Saturday will be the continent’s largest democratic exercise and one of the largest in the world,” said Stacey Abrams, co-leader of the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute election mission to Nigeria. “Our country, Nigeria, is beautiful but our leaders don’t …

Nigerian election: votes are counted after bitterly fought election
1 year, 9 months ago

Nigerian election: votes are counted after bitterly fought election

NPR  

Nigerian election: votes are counted after bitterly fought election Enlarge this image toggle caption JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images LAGOS, Nigeria — Voting took place across Nigeria on Saturday to decide one of the most competitive and unpredictable polls in years. Enlarge this image toggle caption BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP via Getty Images BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP via Getty …

What's at stake as Nigerians elect the president of Africa's largest democracy
1 year, 10 months ago

What's at stake as Nigerians elect the president of Africa's largest democracy

NPR  

What's at stake as Nigerians elect the president of Africa's largest democracy Enlarge this image toggle caption Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images LAGOS, Nigeria — Millions of Nigerians head to the polls on Saturday, in one of the most consequential elections there in decades. Two-thirds of the population now live in poverty and …

Analysis: Scars of annulled 1993 vote trail Nigeria 2023 election
1 year, 10 months ago

Analysis: Scars of annulled 1993 vote trail Nigeria 2023 election

Al Jazeera  

Parallels are being drawn between the 2023 election and the annulled 1993 vote, widely seen as the country’s ‘freest and fairest’. The polls in Nigeria will be held a few months shy of the 30th anniversary of the annulled 1993 presidential elections, widely seen as the “freest and fairest” in the country’s history. On June 12, 1993, as incoming results …

How Nigerian youth are galvanising for upcoming presidential vote
1 year, 10 months ago

How Nigerian youth are galvanising for upcoming presidential vote

Al Jazeera  

More than a third of Nigeria’s 93.4 million registered voters are young people who are gearing up to vote after years of low turnouts. The 2019 presidential election witnessed the lowest turnout since Nigeria’s return to democratic government in 1999 – only a third of registered voters showed up at polling units. But it followed a pattern of routinely low …

Can Atiku Abubakar succeed in sixth run for Nigerian presidency?
1 year, 10 months ago

Can Atiku Abubakar succeed in sixth run for Nigerian presidency?

Al Jazeera  

In his sixth run for the Nigerian presidency, Atiku Abubakar is preaching a future as productive as the country’s past when he was vice president. Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s main opposition party’s presidential candidate, has always had an appetite for big battles. “We have never been this divided along a number of fault lines either north, south or Muslim and Christian,” …

Nigerian presidential hopeful Peter Obi vows to fight corruption
1 year, 11 months ago

Nigerian presidential hopeful Peter Obi vows to fight corruption

Al Jazeera  

Security also top of mind for former governor, who polls show leads a crowded field, ahead of opponents with better name recognition. Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi has pledged to rid Africa’s most populous nation of endemic corruption and widespread insecurity if he wins next month’s election. Obi, who is one of 18 candidates seeking Nigeria’s highest office, described his …

Violent attacks threaten Nigeria’s upcoming 2023 elections
2 years ago

Violent attacks threaten Nigeria’s upcoming 2023 elections

Associated Press  

ABUJA, Nigeria — Violent attacks targeting Nigeria’s election commission offices are raising concerns about the security of the West African country’s upcoming elections in February. “It is a high-stakes election: a make-or-mar election for Nigeria and its neighbors.” Electoral violence including protests challenging official results has often hit Nigeria’s elections. Another threat to the elections may come from the Islamic …

Violent attacks threaten Nigeria's upcoming 2023 elections
2 years ago

Violent attacks threaten Nigeria's upcoming 2023 elections

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Violent attacks targeting Nigeria’s election …

Niger votes in presidential, legislative elections
3 years, 11 months ago

Niger votes in presidential, legislative elections

Associated Press  

NIAMEY, Niger — Niger voted Sunday in presidential and legislative elections that could see the West African country’s first democratic transition of power since independence amid a growing threat from jihadists in the region. Issoufou, who has served two terms, is stepping down, paving the way for the first peaceful transfer of power between two elected presidents since Niger became …

Niger heads to polls in search of first democratic transition
3 years, 11 months ago

Niger heads to polls in search of first democratic transition

The Hindu  

Niger votes in an election onSunday that is expected to lead to the first transfer of power between two democratically elected presidents in a countryreeling from Islamist violence. Former Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum, the ruling party'scandidate, is the overwhelming favourite to succeed President Mahamadou Issoufou, who is stepping down after two five-year terms leading the largely desert country of 23 …

Niger votes Sunday on path to 1st democratic power transfer
4 years ago

Niger votes Sunday on path to 1st democratic power transfer

Associated Press  

NIAMEY, Niger — Niger could see its first democratic transition of power since independence in the elections being held on Sunday amid a growing threat from jihadists in the region. President Mahamadou Issoufou, who has served two terms, is stepping down, paving the way for the first peaceful transfer of power between two elected presidents since independence from France in …

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