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Niger poll to go into second round
President Mahamadou Issoufou in Niamey on Friday. He won the presidential election by 48 per cent. PHOTO | AFP
What you need to know:
The narrow win for Issoufou, who is known as “Zaki” or “Lion” in Hausa, came after he had vowed to secure a victory in the first round.
- The CENI election commission said Issoufou won 48.4 per cent of the February 21 vote — 167,000 votes short of the knock-out victory he had sought.
Issoufou defended the results as impressive and unprecedented and said a wave of pink — the colour of his party — had covered every region of the country.
NIAMEY, Saturday
Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou took a solid lead in the uranium-rich nation’s presidential poll but will face a run-off against jailed opposition leader Hama Amadou on March 20.
