The party of Buhari's main challenger quickly rejected the tallies as 'incorrect and unacceptable'.
Nigerian election's early tally puts Buhari ahead Tuesday 26 February 2019 - 5:21am File: A boy cover himself with a plastic bag while All Progressives Congress Party supporters celebrate initial results released by the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission in Kano, on February 25, 2019, two days after general elections.
President Muhammadu Buhari took an early lead on Monday in initial official results from Nigeria's presidential election, but the party of his main challenger quickly rejected the tallies as"incorrect and unacceptable". Saturday's election, which U.S. observers said had lost some credibility after being abruptly delayed by a week by officials citing organisational glitches, was expected to be Nigeria's tightest since the end of military rule two decades ago.
Nigeria counts votes in election dogged by delays In provisional results announced in state capitals but not yet confirmed by the commission, Buhari had won four states to Atiku's one. In the northern state of Kano, hundreds of people celebrated Buhari's provisional lead in what was billed as one of the key battlegrounds in this year's elections. "Kano is for Buhari," Wahab Abdulawal, a trader, said.
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