Nigeria, March 23 -- The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has explained how the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) allegedly deducted from his scores during the presidential election to "facilitate" Bola Tinubu's victory.

Nigeria held its presidential election on 25 February, but the poll outcome is being contested by the key contestants in the race.

Mr Tinubu, president-elect and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared winner of the election after polling 8.8 million votes to beat his closest challenger, Atiku Abubakar.

But in petition filed on Tuesday at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, Atiku said the electoral umpire "deliberately and...