Voting for 36 state governors held in the shadow of violence that followed the presidential poll.
unting is under way in Nigeria following elections for the country's state governorships. The vote count on Wednesday came amid reports that gunfire and ballot box thefts may have led to low voter turnout a day earlier in some polling areas.
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Kano in northern Nigeria, said at least one state in the north, Gombe, had election officials fleeing polling units due to violence on Tuesday.
"We're still waiting for the results to start trickling in. Security forces are poised to clamp down on any violence that might erupt," she said.
"All of this is happening against the backdrop of a week of post-election mayhem in which at least 500 Nigerians have been killed and some 74,000 people displaced," she said.
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Kano in northern Nigeria, said at least one state in the north, Gombe, had election officials fleeing polling units due to violence on Tuesday.
"We're still waiting for the results to start trickling in. Security forces are poised to clamp down on any violence that might erupt," she said.
"All of this is happening against the backdrop of a week of post-election mayhem in which at least 500 Nigerians have been killed and some 74,000 people displaced," she said.
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