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.
Nigeria has a history of poll rigging and election-linked violence that prompted voters to remain on the scene after casting their ballots to protect Independent National Electoral Commission staff and oversee the counting process. "The turnout of youths and their doggedness insists that ... as soon as they voted and that their results are counted they are willing to defend, so it gives us hope for the new Nigeria," said Edokwe Enechi, a civil servant, after casting her vote in the southeastern city of Akwa on Saturday."I cast my vote at about 9 a.m. or thereabout and we've been waiting for the outcome of the votes from the centre," said one of the players, Anyachukwu Beneiah, who works as a doctor.
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