The country’s independent electoral commission announces he won four million votes more than he main opponent Atiku Abubaker who has rejected this result.

Muhammadu Buhari has his work cut out in his second term as Nigeria’s president .

He has to restore the country’s faltering economy that has still not recovered from a 2016 recession.

This will mean a more equitable distribution of Nigeria’s oil wealth

And he has urgently to address the Islamist insurgency that has made large parts of North East Nigeria ungovernable.

He has to keep his promise to fight corruption that has become endemic.

He also has to deal with growing rural violence between farmers and cattle herders they accuse of  destroying their land.

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His opponent Atiku Abubaker has rejected this result that still has to be officially confirmed.

Reuters in Nigeria is reporting that Muhammadu Buhari won four million votes more than Atiku Abubaker in the Presidential election that was delayed for a week by operational problems.

The electoral commission will review the figures it has put out and deliver an official result.

Buhari has his work cut out.

He has to restore Nigeria’s faltering economy still not recovered from a 2016 recession.

And he has urgently to address the Islamist insurgency that has made large part of North East Nigeria ungovernable. 

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