What next for heartbroken young Nigerian voters?
Heartbroken first-time voters in Nigeria are being urged not to give up after the candidate that many of them backed came third in the presidential race two weeks ago.
"Change does not occur overnight. It happens step by step. Day by day. And we have taken a thousand steps into the future,"The electoral process was criticised by observer groups as falling short of required standards - and the opposition People Democratic Party and Labour Party are challenging the result in court.
Some victories have given card-carrying Labour Party members faith that the ultimate power in a democracy resides with the people. The city is the Obidient movement's heartland - springing out of the ashes of the 2020 EndSars anti-police brutality protests when over two weeks tens of thousands of mainly young Nigerians took to the streets, leading to the disbandment of the police unit.A tollgate where protesters camped for weeks in the upmarket Lekki area of Lagos in 2020 has become synonymous with the EndSars protests
"They turned off the lights, removed the cameras and they killed us like antelopes," Adeola Owosho, a tech products marketer who narrowly escaped death during the shooting, told the BBC. "I voted under the rain hoping my vote would count, clearly it didn't," said Naya Benson in Abuja, where many voters stood for hours under 34C heat before an evening rainstorm drenched them on the day of the presidential poll.
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