Nigeria was to resume announcing presidential election results on Monday amid complaints of irregularities as opposition parties criticised the slow pace at which the results were being uploaded on to the election commission's website.
To become president, a candidate needs a simple majority and to garner a quarter of the votes in at least 24 states.
All three parties complained of irregularities. Obi's Labour Party lambasted the electoral body for the failure, in some places, to upload results directly from each polling unit to its website, as it had promised to do to guarantee transparency.
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