Nigeria's opposition Labour Party candidate Peter Obi has filed a petition seeking to cancel results from last month's disputed presidential election, court papers showed, kicking off what could be a long legal campaign lasting several months.
and had appeared to throw the contest wide open, raising some voters' hopes for change after years of hardship and violence under outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari, 80, a former army general.
The observers criticised the INEC for poor planning and voting delays, but they did not allege fraud. The commission itself apologised for the technical problems during the count.
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