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| Muhammadu Buhari to contest Nigeria election for APC | |
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| Former military leader Muhammadu Buhari is set to contest Nigeria's presidential election. | Former military leader Muhammadu Buhari is set to contest Nigeria's presidential election. |
| Mr Buhari has won a primary to choose a candidate from the opposition APC to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan. | |
| The elections in February look to be the closest fought since the end of military rule in 1999. | The elections in February look to be the closest fought since the end of military rule in 1999. |
| The 71-year-old former general, a Muslim from the north, seized power in 1983 but was himself deposed in a coup two years later. | |
| He was up against four other candidates in the vote at the All Progressives Congress (APC) party convention in Lagos. | |
| Mr Buhari won 3,430 votes while his closest rival, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, fell far short, with only 954 votes out of 8,000. | |
| Mr Abubakar congratulated his opponent on Twitter after the vote and said: "The delegates have spoken, you fully deserve the victory." | |
| This will be the fourth time at the presidential polls for Mr Buhari who has widespread support in the largely Muslim north. | |
| President Jonathan was the sole candidate at the ruling party's primaries, also on Thursday. | |
| He told his party members that "today we are stronger, bigger and more in tune with the yearnings of our people". | |
| Mr Jonathan has faced mounting criticism over his handling of the Boko Haram insurgency. |