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A presidential election was held in Nigeria on 16 April 2011, postponed from 9 April 2011. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The election followed controversy as to whether a Muslim or Christian should be allowed to become president given the tradition of rotating the top office between the religions and following the death of Umaru Yar'Adua , who was a ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the names of twenty-four approved candidates for the presidential elections. 21 April: Umaru Yar'Adua, Governor of Katsina State, was elected President of Nigeria. 2009: 23 November President Umaru Yar'Adua travels to Saudi Arabia to receive treatment for a heart condition.
The 2023 Nigerian presidential election was held on 25 February 2023 [a] to elect the president and vice president of Nigeria. [1] Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State and nominee of the All Progressives Congress won the election with 36.61% of the vote, just under 8.8 million votes to defeat over runners-up former vice president Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party) and former ...
Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 12 June 1993, the first since the 1983 military coup ended the country's Second Republic. The elections were the outcome of a transitional process to civilian rule spearheaded by the military ruler, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.
The current constitution of Nigeria has the president of Nigeria as the head of state and government. [1] From 1960 to 1963, the head of state under the Constitution of 1960 was the queen of Nigeria, Elizabeth II, who was also the monarch of other Commonwealth realms. The monarch was represented in Nigeria by a governor-general.
Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 27 February 1999. These were the first elections since the 1993 military coup, and the first elections of the Fourth Nigerian Republic . The result was a victory for Olusegun Obasanjo of the People's Democratic Party , who defeated Olu Falae , who was running on a joint Alliance for Democracy - All ...
No legal challenge to the outcome of a presidential election has succeeded in Nigeria, which returned to democracy in 1999 after three decades of almost uninterrupted military rule and has a ...
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