There’s a fear that this postponement will lead to a lower turnout of the 84-million registered voters in Africa’s most populous country.

Incumbent Muhammadu Buhari and former vice president Atiku Abubaker are the two main candidates to today’s presidential poll .

Buhari’s criticized for failing to adequately to deal with corruption, unemployment and insecurity.

Abubaker has a chequered record on corruption.

It is important the result is accepted by the losing side to avoid the ethnic violence that will inevitably follow a disputed outcome.

Putting Buhari in power in mid 2015 was the first democratic change of government in Nigeria post the end of military rule in 1999.

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