Nigeria vote runs into second day after glitches, killings


  • World
  • Sunday, 29 Mar 2015

A man on crutches casts his vote at a polling unit at the start of voting in Apapa district in Lagos March 28, 2015. REUTERS/Kunle Ajayi

ABUJA (Reuters) - Voting in Nigeria's tensest election since the end of military rule in 1999 spilled into a second day on Sunday after technical glitches hit voter ID machines and Islamist Boko Haram militants killed more than a dozen people in drive-by shootings.

The race pits President Goodluck Jonathan against former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari for the favour of an electorate divided along a complex mix of ethnic, regional and in some cases religious lines.

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