Nigeria voters stand guard as election ballot papers counted

FILE PHOTO: A day after the elections, a soldier guards a vote collation centre that had been stormed by unknown assailants earlier in the day in Alimosho, Lagos, Nigeria on February 26, 2023. REUTERS/James Oatway

LAGOS/AKWA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Hours after polls closed in Lagos, young Nigerian voters stood around an election commission official and counted in unison as he tallied ballot papers one by one.

Youths across the country were up long into the night after presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday, shining lights on the counting process from their cellphones.