Atiku Abubakar, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, claims that early results indicate he will likely win Nigeria’s presidential election.
The party said on Twitter that Mr Abubakar was “securing the highest number of valid votes cast as well as the statutory 25% in at least two thirds of the states”.
This is true despite the fact that only one of Nigeria’s 36 states had official results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec).
Bola Tinubu, the candidate for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party, received 201,494 votes from the state’s southwest.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party received 11,397 votes, compared to Mr. Abubakar’s 89,554 votes.
Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of Inec, stated that the commission would make part of the findings from the other states public on Monday at 10:00 GMT.
On Sunday, Inec announced that it was attempting to resolve issues with its portal for viewing election results.
Final presidential results are expected to be declared by 1 March. The vote on Saturday was marred by pockets of violence, widespread delays and logistical problems.
The Economic Community of West African States’ (Ecowas) election observer mission described the election as generally peaceful and with a massive voter turnout.
Source: The Independent Ghana