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Buhari, Atiku hopeful of victory amid uncertainty ... as INEC chair opens national collation centre ... PDP, CUPP ask commission to declare results now OWEDE AGBAJILEKE, Abuja

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s Nigerians await the announcement of the results of Saturday’s elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the two major candidates in the Presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), have expressed hope of victory at the polls. Atiku, a former vice president, on Sunday confirmed that the initial indications from the party’s Simultaneous Vote Count indicate victory for him, and so he was optimistic of winning the presidential election. Earlier, after casting his ballot at Niyam Polling Unit in Sarkin Yara ‘A’ Ward in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State, on Saturday, Buhari, incumbent presiContinues on page 46

Inside Understanding the economy of Nigeria’s 36 states – North East & Adamawa

R-L: Mahmood Yakubu, chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); Mustafa Lekki; Tijjani Ahmed Muazu, and May Agbamuche Mbu, national commissioners, INEC, at the opening of National Collation Centre for the Presidential and National Assembly election results in Abuja, yesterday. Pic by Tunde Adeniyi

Electoral violence shows Nigeria still struggling with democracy A ODINAKA ANUDU

t 2.25pm on Saturday, a group of gun-wielding ballot snatchers stormed a polling station at Ajao Estate, Airport Road, Lagos, shot sporadically in the air and destroyed all the sensitive and non-sensitive materials for

Booth 006. Frightened voters and INEC officials scampered for safety, ending people’s hope of electing their choice of leaders in that area. Several voters were injured in the melee and they vowed not to vote again. “I will not die because I am trying to vote in people to occupy public offices,” Nkechi

Emelonu, one of the voters, told a BusinessDay correspondent who monitored the election in the estate. “After spending three hours in the sun with my baby on my back, it is hard to swallow that I couldn’t vote and the votes before me would not count,” the 36-year-old mother of two said.

Also, at Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, young men said to belong to Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) stormed polling stations in the area and set sensitive materials ablaze. One Ademola, said to be the leader of the group, was mobbed while another person was murdered in Continues on page 46


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