{"id":119009,"date":"2023-02-25T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119009"},"modified":"2023-02-25T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:58:33","slug":"bbc-nigeria-election-2023-votes-are-counted-but-final-results-may-take-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119009","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Nigeria election 2023: Votes are counted but final results may take days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vote counting is under way in Nigeria&#8217;s tightest presidential election since military rule ended in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Voting was marred by long delays as polling stations failed to open on time in some areas because of logistical problems and security incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout appeared to be high, with many young, first-time voters arriving before dawn to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The elections are the biggest democratic exercise in Africa, with 87 million people eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-64772763\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andy Vermaut shares:Nigeria election 2023: Votes are counted but final results may take days: The elections are the biggest democratic exercise in Africa, with 87 million people eligible to vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qQSps3iuLV\">https:\/\/t.co\/qQSps3iuLV<\/a> Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LGYkf4uUFT\">pic.twitter.com\/LGYkf4uUFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Vermaut (@AndyVermaut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyVermaut\/status\/1629561856657616896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote counting is under way in Nigeria&#8217;s tightest presidential election since military rule ended in 1999. Voting was marred by long delays as polling stations failed to open on time in some areas because of logistical problems and security incidents.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119009\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria-africa","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119012,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119009\/revisions\/119012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}