Live updates: Presidential and National Assembly Elections, Results

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Live updates: Presidential and National Assembly Elections, Results

Welcome. On Saturday 25th February, millions of Nigerians trooped out to elect the next President and National Assembly members. It is the seventh consecutive general election in this Fourth Republic, starting from 1999.

While results are trickling in, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has not only suspended elections in some areas till tomorrow, Sunday, but also postponed collation to same day.

We are bringing you live updates of the elections, as they are concluded, and the results as INEC releases them.

Earlier…

Expectations are high that the election shall be like none before.

Mr Peter Obi, an Igbo and former Governor of Anambra State, is the flag bearer of the resurgent Labour Party, LP.

One of the main contenders is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, a Yoruba, who had served for two terms as the Governor of Lagos State. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, another political force in the election is a Fulani like the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari. He is flying the flag of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

This is reminiscent of the geo-political parallel in the country’s presidential election when Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (Igbo) of the Nigerian People’s Party, NPP, squared up against Chief Obafemi Awolowo (Yoruba) of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, and Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Hausa/Fulani of the National Party of Nigeria, NPN; and for the keenly contested 1979 polls which Shagari eventually won.

However, political analysts have talked of a three-horse presidential race with no certainty on who will likely be the country’s next president after the incumbent.

But it will be wrong to ignore Senator Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, who is a force and arguably makes it a four-horse race.

Here, at Vanguard, we will follow the voters and bring you live updates from across the country.

Stay with us for briefs, pictures and videos of the elections. Nigerians decide!