APC’s Bola Tinubu makes speeches after opposition calls for ‘manipulated’ result to be scrapped
Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, has reached out to opposition parties and those disappointed by his victory in the weekend election, promising that “renewed hope has dawned” in Africa’s most populous nation.
“I understand your hurt. To you, I extend the embrace and comfort of a family member. This great project called Nigeria beckons to us all. It is bigger and more important than any partisan divide,” Tinubu, who won with just 37% of votes cast, said. The main opposition challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party won 29% with almost 7m votes.
However, within a day of the polls closing, APC officials and ministerial aides were privately expressing confidence in victory.who reached across the country’s faultlines to woo voters from all communities and ran a slick social media campaign to attract young people. The voting was mostly peaceful, but was troubled by long delays at many polling stations, while technical hitches disrupted the uploading of results to a central website.
International observers have also criticised Saturday’s vote, which was largely peaceful despite expectations of widespread chaos and violence. A team of observers led by Joyce Banda, the former president of Malawi, said delays on voting day, which led to many polling stations opening hours late, meant the election “fell well short of Nigerian citizens’ reasonable expectations”.The president-elect’s supporters pointed to Tinubu’s power base of Lagos to rebut allegations of vote rigging.
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