Nigeria's incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari extended his early election ...
ABUJA - Nigeria’s incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari extended his early election lead on Tuesday based on official results from a third of the country’s districts as the death toll from sporadic poll-related violence rose to 47.
Atiku’s party has rejected the tallies thus far as “incorrect and unacceptable”. Buhari’s party said the opposition was trying to discredit the returns from Saturday’s election. But the event - Africa’s largest democratic exercise - has been marred by violence in which 47 people have been killed since Saturday, according to the Situation Room, a monitoring organization linking various civic groups.
A decade-old Islamist insurgency has disrupted life in the northeast and killed thousands of people, many of themn civilians. Initial results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission so far put Buhari in the lead, with victories in 10 of Nigeria’s 36 states. In provisional results announced in state capitals but not yet confirmed by the commission, Buhari had won six states to Atiku’s four.
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