Niamey (Niger)
Nigeria has a new president.
Bola Tinubu, 70, former governor of Lagos and candidate for the ruling party, was declared the winner of the poll on Wednesday March 1 by the electoral commission.
With 37% of the vote (8.8 million votes), he beat his competitor Atiku Abubakar at the end of a hotly contested campaign, where for the first time an "outsider", Peter Obi, succeeded in shaking up the
opposition
between the two main political parties, the APC and the PDP.
This Muslim from the South thus takes over from Muhammadu Buhari, who bequeaths him a country in economic crisis and plagued by insecurity.
"
E mi lon kan",
"it's my turn
"
in the Yoruba language, has never stopped repeating Bola Tinubu throughout his campaign.
Exiled under the military dictatorship, returned with democracy in 1999, he had built the image of a fighter for democracy.
Even today, he wears a broken shackle, a symbol of freedom, on his hats.
First Almighty Governor of the State…
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