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Story highlights Vote-counting postponed until Tuesday morning, election leader says in tweet Partial vote count shows opposition candidate leading in Nigeria, Reuters reports Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari faced off in election

Reuters, which has collated results from three-quarters of Nigeria's states as they're broadcast live on state TV, reported that Buhari has so far obtained 11.5 million votes, Jonathan 9.5 million.

Electoral officers from each of the 36 states are taking turns declaring results from their respective states at the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The vote count was stopped Monday night and will resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday (5 a.m. ET), according to a tweet from Attahiru Jega, the chairman of the electoral commission. Jega will be the one to announce final results.

Violent protests after Nigeria's presidential elections Saturday sparked calls for calm from the two main candidates and a warning by the United States and Britain against political interference.

Protesters fired gunshots and torched a local electoral office in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state on Sunday as they marched to protest the elections, amid claims of vote-rigging and voter intimidation.

Heavy rain eventually forced the protesters to leave, but there are fears it will take more than rain to stop further protests and violence. More than 800 people were killed in post-election violence across Nigeria's north in 2011 after charges that those elections were illegitimate.

Now Nigeria has just held what are thought to be the closest elections since a return to democracy in 1999 after decades of military rule. The two main candidates are incumbent Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party and retired Buhari of All Progressives Congress.

Goodluck Jonathan, left, and Mohammadu Buhari renewed pledges for peaceful elections on March 26.

Jonathan and Buhari last week issued a pledge reaffirming their commitment to "free, fair and credible elections" after their signing of the Abuja Accord in January.

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March 31, 2015 : Success Nwogu, Afeez Hanafi and Armstrong Bakamn 5 Comments

Dr Bukola Saraki | credits: File copy

The Senate Leader, Senator Abdul Ningi of the Peoples Democratic Party has lost his bid to return to the Senate, as Isah Misau of the All Progressives Congress was declared the winner of the Bauchi Central Senatorial District.

Declaring the results on Monday, the INEC Collation Officer for the Bauchi Central, Dr. Mohammed Yakubu, announced that Misau scored 208, 741 votes to beat Ningi, who scored 57, 172 votes.

The result, as declared in Azare, the headquarters of the district on Monday, by the INEC Collation Officer for the Bauchi North Senatorial election, Dr. Muhammed Adamu, said Nazif polled 197, 919 votes, to beat Mustapha, who scored 97, 047.

Also, the Bauchi State Governor, who is also the PDP candidate in the Bauchi South senatorial elections, Isa Yuguda, is trailing the All Progressives Congress candidate, Ali Wakili, from the results of four of the seven local governments announced so far.

Also, a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, was re-elected to represent the Plateau Central senatorial zone.

A former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, also secured victory to represent Anambra North Senatorial District. Oduah, who ran on the platform of the PDP, polled 143,478 to defeat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Cheif Dubem Obaze of the All Progressives Congress, who polled 70,906 votes.

Also Governor Aliyu Wammakko of Sokoto State (APC); his Plateau State counterpart, Jonah Jang (PDP); Abia State Governor, Theodore Orji (PDP); and Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State(APC), former Governor of Osun State, Isiaka Adeleke (APC) all secured victory to represent their respective zones.

However, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi of the PDP failed to return to the Senate as he lost to Malam Shehu Sani of the APC, who will now represent Northern Kaduna Senatorial District.

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March 29, 2015 : Gbenga Adeniji and Kamarudeen Ogundele 11 Comments

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A member of the All Progressives Congress, Jide Owolabi, was reportedly shot on Saturday as members of the opposition party challenged the Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Olubunmi Olusola-Eleka, during the presidential election.

It was gathered that problem started when Olusola-Eleka was moving around the polling units in Ikere Ekiti to monitor the accreditation process.

According to the incumbent senator and candidate of the APC for Ekiti South Federal Constituency, Anthony Adeniyi, aggrieved youths who saw his action as violating the electoral law accosted him and asked him to return to his polling unit.

Adeniyi claimed that Owolabi was shot on the buttocks by one of the security operatives attached to the deputy governor when argument ensued.

But Governor Ayodele Fayoses Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in a statement denied that security men attached to Olusola-Eleka shot any APC member.

Adelusi said rather, it was the APC thugs stationed along Odo Oja Area in Ikere Ekiti that ambushed Olusola-Eleka and almost killed him, though he managed to escape.

The statement said, The Deputy Governor received a call that card reader machines in some polling booths were not functioning.

Dr. Olubunmi Olusola-Eleka decided to visit the polling booths, based on the reports, but at Odo Oja Area, some APC thugs who apparently had been stationed there to cause violence in Ikere welcomed the deputy governors convoy with stones and the security attached to him had to shoot in the air to disperse them.

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