While the final results were still being tallied on Tuesday, aides to Mr Buhari claimed victory over incumbent Goodluck Jonathan after establishing a lead of around 1.5 million votes out of 22 million votes already counted.
Up to press time yesterday, the final results were yet to be announced but it cleared to Mr. Goodluck Jonathan had already run out of luck.
A defeat for Mr. Jonathan would be the first time in Nigeria’s brief democracy that a sitting president has not won a second term or handed power to a nominated successor.