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TEHRAN, Feb 27 - President Muhammadu Buhari has won a second term in Nigeria, the election board said on Wednesday, but his main rival planned a fraud challenge after a vote marred by delays, logistical glitches and scores of deaths.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - More than 260 people were killed since the start of the campaign in October, 47 of them during Saturday's vote and its aftermath, according to one monitoring group.
Buhari, a 76-year-old former military ruler took 56 percent of votes against 41 for his main rival, businessman and former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party.
The incumbent has a daunting to-do list, including reviving an economy still struggling to recover from a 2016 recession and quelling a decade-old extremist insurgency that has killed thousands in the northeast, many of them civilians.
"The new administration will intensify its efforts in security, restructuring the economy and fighting corruption," he told celebrating supporters at the campaign headquarters of his All Progressive Congress party in the capital Abuja.
The president garnered 15.2 million votes to Atiku's 11.3 million, on turnout of just 35.6 percent, the electoral commission said. That compared with 44 percent turnout in 2015.
While Buhari urged supporters not to gloat or "humiliate" the opposition, Atiku said the election was rigged.
Source: Reuters
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