Opposition's Muhammadu Buhari wins Nigerian election
First time incumbent has lost Nigerian presidential poll
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Becky Lipscombe
BBC News, Abuja
Twenty-six Nigerian states have declared their results in the presidential poll. The Rivers State result has given a big boost to President Goodluck Jonathan. Gen Muhammadu Buhari's lead has now narrowed to just over 500,000 votes.
Nigeria's electoral commission chairman, Attahiru Jega, has said the fact-finding team sent to southern Rivers state found there were some voting irregularities with the poll but not enough "to warrant a cancellation of the election".
Results just announced for the state, where a dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed, give incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan a huge boost with 1,487,075 votes, his rival Gen Muhammadu Buhari got 69,238 votes.
Mansur Liman
BBC Hausa editor
tweets, external from Nigeria's electoral counting centre in Abuja: "Returning officer from #RiversState making the collation center lively by cracking jokes. Tension eased after Orubebe"
The returning officer for Rivers state has got the audience at the Nigeria electoral centre in the capital, Abuja, laughing as he says he cannot read his own writing.
Nigerians crowd around a newspaper stand earlier this morning to read news of the presidential election result in the oil capital of Port Harcourt in the southern Niger Delta region.
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tweets, external from Abuja where the results of Nigeria's presidential election are being announced: "Dapper member of Buhari's team waits for final result."
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Image source, AFPTwelve states yet to be declared in the Nigerian presidential election - here are the latest results:
APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 10,384,899
PDP's Goodluck Jonathan: 8,466,357.
And here's the scene at the counting centre in Abuja:
Will Ross
BBC News, Abuja
tweets , externalabout Nigeria's electoral count: "Daily Trust's cartoonist on the number crunching"
Image source, Twitter/Daily TrustBBC Hausa's Yusuf Yakasai says Nigerians in the northern city of Kano are closely monitoring the announcement of presidential results on radio sets and their mobile phones.
Nkem Ifejika
BBC World Service, Abuja
tweets, external about the results from the home state of Nigeria's incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan: "APC gets 5194 in Bayelsa. PDP got 361209. So APC got less than 2%. Wow. #NigeriaDecides"
Aliyu Tanko
BBC Hausa service, Abuja
tweets, external about Nigeria's presidential poll results: "A titanic battle in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. Although an opposition state but the ruling party did well #Nigeriadecides"
The opposition APC took 792,460 votes and the ruling PDP 632,327.
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The state-by-state announcements of Nigeria's presidential poll results have now resumed.
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Nigeria's electoral chief, Attahiru Jega, calmly dismissed the complaints of PDP agent Godswill Peter Orubebe. He said he would only receive complaints through the proper channels and added that he was not releasing results to the opposition APC before declaring them publicly.
Image source, AP"Let us be careful about what we say or do and let us not dispute a process that has begun peacefully," he said. Addressing Mr Orubebe, he added: "You're a statesman in your own right, you should be careful about your public conduct." After which the audience broke into applause.
Nigeria's PDP party agent Elder Orubebe is refusing to leave the microphone at the electoral counting centre in Abuja and will not allow the electoral commission chairman to respond to his complaints.
Image source, NTAElder Orubebe is sitting on the step refusing to move
Mansur Liman
BBC Hausa editor
There is chaos here at the Inec collation centre in Nigeria's capital as the PDP party of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan makes a protest accusing the chairman of the electoral commission of taking sides. He is accusing Attahiru Jega of bias and entertaining complaints from the opposition APC but not from the PDP.
PDP agent Elder Orubebe has told the chairman of Nigeria's electoral commission Attahiru Jega that he is '"partial" and "selective", he added "we cannot take it you are tribalistic, we will not allow".