Turnout in Nigeria’s presidential election was the lowest on record — with fewer than 3 out of 10 people who registered and collected voting cards casting their ballots.
There had been optimism ahead of the Feb. 25 vote — won by the ruling party’s Bola Tinubu — that the contest would reverse a steady decline in participation in the West African country’s recent polls. In the run-up to the election, in which for the first time three candidates campaigned with a credible shot at victory, the voter roll swelled by more than 9 million. About 87.2 million Nigerians were eligible to vote.
