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All Progressives Congress (APC) party supporters celebrate in Lagos on March 1, 2023 after party candidate Bola Tinubu won Nigeria's highly disputed weekend election, securing the former Lagos governor his life-long ambition of the presidency of Africa's most populous democracy. (Photo by John Wessels / AFP) (Photo by JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, won Nigeria’s presidential election. International observers said that the vote “fell well short of Nigerian citizens’ legitimate and reasonable expectations” after polling stations opened late or did not open at all, and an electronic system for transmitting results did not work.

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