Provisional results from Nigeria's disputed presidential election showed Bola Tinubu from the ruling party closing in on victory, a Reuters tally of votes in 33 of the country's 36 states and the federal capital Abuja showed.
With only 4 states left to declare, Tinubu was ahead with about 34% or 7.6 million of valid votes counted, making it highly likely he would be declared the winner on Tuesday of the weekend election. But opposition parties rejected the results as the product of a flawed process, which suffered multiple technical difficulties owing to the introduction of new technology by the Independent National Electoral Commission and on Tuesday called on its chairman Mahmood Yakubu to resign.
"The results being declared at the National Collation centre have been heavily doctored and manipulated and do not reflect the wishes of Nigerians expressed at the polls," opposition parties said in a joint statement. The election was also marred by violence in places, although seemingly not on the scale of previous ones.
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