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Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of a presidential election in Nigeria, Africa’s largest democracy. Opposition candidates are challenging the result and calling for a new election, citing voting irregularities. It was the closest election in decades and the first in which a winner was declared without 50% of the vote, according to some reports. Tinubu, a member of the All Progressives Congress party, received 37% of the vote.
there had been “noncompliance with electoral guidelines, lack of transparency, and manipulation of election results.”
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