The opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari has
scored a narrow victory over President Goodluck
Jonathan in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos, officials
results from the country’s general election
showed Tuesday.
The vote in Lagos was characterised by low
turnout.
Only 1.7 million of 5.8 million registered voters
cast ballots in the presidential and legislative polls
held at the weekend.
Technical glitches, including failures in voter card
identification devices being used for the first time
in Nigeria, caused major delays nationwide,
including in Lagos, a city of roughly 20 million
people.
Frustrations over delays were thought to have
kept turnout down in a number of Nigerian
states.
In Lagos, Buhari of the opposition All Progressives
Congress took 792,460 votes, while Jonathan from
the Peoples Democratic Party won 632,327.
The Lagos government has been controlled by the
opposition since the end of military rule in 1999,
but the PDP had earned victories there in past
presidential elections.
Lagos was identified as a key swing state, where
both Buhari and Jonathan had campaigned hard
in the run up to election day.
It was not immediately clear how the low turnout
would affect the national result, but news of the
win in Lagos was cheered by APC loyalists at the
party’s headquarters in Nigeria’s capital.
Lagos is Nigeria’s most religiously and ethnically
mixed area, and voters have a history of
transcending the sectarian biases that frame
voting in other parts of the country.
Buhari, a northern Muslim, has scored huge
majorities in the north, while Jonathan, a
southern Christian, is awaiting results from his
strongholds

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And where's this coming from

it is Jonathan or no Nigeria. i know Jonathan will
win. let's be patient.

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