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President Tinubu faces Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Seyi Makinde and 14 others on 16 January 2027. Here is who they are, how they won their tickets and who is running with them.
A candidate needs the most votes and at least a quarter of the vote in two-thirds of the states and the FCT. Here is how the rule works, and what happens if nobody meets it.
Bola Tinubu won with 36.6% in the most competitive presidential race since 1999. Peter Obi's rise, a cash crunch and INEC's failure to upload results in real time shaped the vote.
Muhammadu Buhari beat Atiku Abubakar by more than 3.9 million votes in an election delayed by a week, just hours before polls were due to open.
Muhammadu Buhari won at his fourth attempt, and Goodluck Jonathan's phone call conceding defeat set a new standard for Nigerian democracy.
Goodluck Jonathan won with 58.9% in what observers called a significant improvement on 2007, but riots across 12 northern states killed more than 800 people.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua won the first handover from one elected president to another, but observers called the polls the worst they had seen, and the new president agreed they needed fixing.
The first election organised by a civilian government ended in a second term for Olusegun Obasanjo, amid serious complaints of fraud and violence.
Olusegun Obasanjo beat Olu Falae with 62.8% of the vote, ending 16 years of military rule and opening the Fourth Republic.
