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| Yar'Adua named new Nigeria leader | Yar'Adua named new Nigeria leader |
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| Nigeria's ruling party candidate Umaru Yar'Adua has won controversial presidential elections, according to official results. | |
| European Union observers say the elections were a "charade" and any administration that resulted would not have any legitimacy. | European Union observers say the elections were a "charade" and any administration that resulted would not have any legitimacy. |
| The two main opposition candidates have told their supporters to reject the results and want a re-run. | The two main opposition candidates have told their supporters to reject the results and want a re-run. |
| Mr Yar'Adua gained 24.6m votes, against 6.6m for his closest challenger. | Mr Yar'Adua gained 24.6m votes, against 6.6m for his closest challenger. |
| Muhammadu Buhari came second, while vice-president turned opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar came third, with 2.6m votes. | |
| Both men accuse the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) of rigging the elections. | |
| This should be the first time Africa's most populous nation replaces one elected civilian head with another. | |
| 'Widespread abuses' | |
| Mr Buhari had earlier threatened to call his supporters onto the streets if Mr Yar'Adua was declared the winner. | |
| PRESIDENTIAL RESULT Umaru Musa Yar'Adua: 24.6m Muhammadu Buhari: 6.6mAtiku Abubakar: 2.6m Profile: Umaru Yar'Adua What observers say Nigeria's biggest election monitoring group said the presidential poll was so flawed that it should be scrapped and held again. | |
| "In many parts of the country elections did not start on time or did not start at all," said Transition Monitoring Group chief Innocent Chukwuma. | |
| The US says it is "deeply troubled" by the weekend polls. | |
| But election commissioner Maurice Iwu said the election had been a success that would be remembered for generations. | |
| Voter Donaman Atezan, 25, told the BBC News website that election material was delivered late to his polling station in the central Benue Sate, after most people had gone home. | |
| "Thugs were then left alone to vote and each one of them voted for the PDP over and over as many times as the ballot papers were available," he said. | |
| He said he tried to vote for an opposition candidate but the ballot paper was ripped from his hand. | |
| Cutlasses | |
| Officials had struggled to deliver some of the 60m ballot papers to stations in time for the vote. They only arrived in the country on Friday evening. | |
| The more thugs you have, the more votes you have Sha'aya'u Aminu, 23, student Voters' views Press unease | |
| The boldest of several attempts to disrupt polling was in the hours before voting was due to start when a petrol tanker laden with gas cylinders was used in an attack on the electoral commission's headquarters in Abuja. | |
| The attackers tried to roll the unmanned tanker into the building, but the vehicle missed its target and came to a halt. | |
| The presidential poll was running alongside elections for the National Assembly and Senate. | |
| The new government is scheduled to take power on 29 May. | |
| Nigeria - one of the world's biggest oil producers - is of key strategic interest to both the West and the growing economies of the East. | |
| But despite the country's huge oil wealth, tens of millions live in poverty. |