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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has an unassailable lead in the presidential election held over the weekend, a Reuters tally of provisional results from all 36 states and the federal capital Abuja showed on Tuesday.
Tinubu of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) of outgoing president Muhammadu Buhari got about 35% of the vote, trailed by Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) with 30%.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party, an outsider popular with the youth and educated voters, got 26%.
Tinubu’s potential victory extends the All Progressives Congress party’s (APC) grip on power in Africa’s top oil producer and most populous nation, though he inherits a litany of problems from outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari.
