Nigeria's ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was ahead in the vote count after Saturday's presidential poll, a Reuters tally of provisional results in 20 of 36 states showed on Monday, but opposition parties walked out of the counting process citing concerns of fraud.
The tally of provisional electoral commission results showed Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress party, was ahead with 39.7% or 5.4-million of valid votes counted, against 32.2% or 4.4-million votes for Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition People's Democratic Party .
There is no legal requirement to do so, but the failure of the electoral commission to live up to its promise meant results had to be collated manually inside ward and local government counting centres as in previous polls. By 1700 GMT on Monday, INEC had uploaded results from just 66,167 polling units out of a total of 178,846, its website showed.
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