Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu declared winner of presidential vote

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Winner of the Nigeria presidential vote, Bola Tinubu received 37 per cent of the vote, or nearly 8.8 million, while the main opposition candidate Abubakar won 29 per cent with almost 7 million...

Bola Tinubu, center, of the All Progressives Congress celebrates with supporters at the Party's campaign headquarters after winning the presidential elections in Abuja, Nigeria AP)..

Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was declared winner of Nigerias presidential election early Wednesday and soon after thanked his supporters and appealed to his rivals who are already demanding a revote in Africas most populous nation...

Tinubus ruling All Progressives Congress party urged the opposition to accept defeat Tuesday and not cause trouble after they had demanded a revote saying that delays in uploading election results had made room for irregularities...

It is one country and we must build together.. The announcement of his victory came after 4 a.m., but celebrations already had started late Tuesday at the ruling partys national secretariat where Tinubus supporters had gathered in anticipation of his victory...