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Falae says polls a charade

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    The loser, Olu Falae, said today he might take legal and political action, challenging the results which he described as “a farce and a charade”, AFP reported.

    He told the agency from Abuja, the federal capital, that the worst cases of ballot rigging were in southeast Nigeria and a few areas in the north, such as Kaduna and Bauchi.

    “In a number of places there was absolutely no voting. The ballot boxes had already been stuffed,” he said, according to AFP.

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