Nigeria's Bola Tinubu was declared winner of the presidential vote on Wednesday morning, with his ruling party encouraging rival parties to accept defeat and not cause trouble. This is likely to lead to a court challenge by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, who had both demanded a revote after claiming that vote rigging and widespread violence had compromised the election. Tinubu is the former governor of Lagos state, home to Nigeria's megacity of the same name, but he lost the state to Obi in Saturday's election. The parties now have three weeks to appeal results, but an election can be invalidated only if it's proven the national electoral body largely didn't follow the law.

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