Nigerians on Saturday filed out to vote for the successor of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), after his two terms of eight years.
This is coming after months of campaigns by 18 candidates of different political parties. The major contenders and an eventual winner is believed to be among the candidates of the ruling All Progressives Party, Bola Tinubu; the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and Labour Party, Peter Obi.
Close to 90 million voters were eligible to vote during the elections with more than 176,000 polling units.
The reports that Saturday’s elections, which include Nigeria’s two houses of parliament, the House of Representatives and Senate, were marred by violence in many parts of the country.
The situation led to the loss of lives and disruption of the voting process in many areas.
Following the elections, there had been several unverified election results online with several party supporters claiming that their candidates are leading others in Saturday’s presidential poll.
This had led major political parties to engage in war or words over allegations and counter allegations on elections results being bandied around on the internet.
However, here are the three indices that will determine the winner of the poll
1. The candidate that scores the majority vote.
2. The candidate with at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in two-thirds (24 out of 36) of the states.
3. If no candidate meets the criteria, a run-off will be conducted within 21 days.
4. Only two candidates – the one with the highest number of votes and the candidate with 25 percent votes in more states – will take part in the run-off election
