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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