Nigeria, Feb. 27 -- The electoral commission, INEC, has begun the collation and announcement of election results at local governments across Nigeria,

Nigeria has a total of 774 local government areas. After elections are conducted at polling units and results are announced, the collation of results is done at wards and local governments before they are done at state headquarters. The final collation of results for the presidential election is done at the INEC headquarters in Abuja. INEC has announced that the final collation would commence at about 12 noon on Sunday.

Elections, which were supposed to start at 8:30 a.m., commenced late in many polling units, pushing the timing for the end of the election into the late hours of Saturday....