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Nigeria Election: Crowds chant 'let us vote'

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Nigeria Election: Crowds chant 'let us vote' It's finally here. Nigeria's much-awaited election. People are gathering to cast their vote, but the polling stations are late. This one in Lagos opened just in time for former state governor and presidential candidate Bola Ahmadtinobu to cast his vote. He's up against two other front-runners, former vice president and people-democratic party candidate Attiku Abu Bakr and a wild card, 61-year-old former banker Peter Obi, who has been galvanizing the country's youth. Whoever does win has a mammoth task ahead. Mr. How do you expect to solve the country's economic crisis? Will we definitely be a transformative government? Will we walk hard to change the economic crisis? It's not the only thing that we have as a challenge. Nigeria is also dealing with a widespread security crisis as well as endemic corruption a...