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Email Print Factbox Accounts of voting from around Nigeria 11:12am EDT Related News Nigeria's Buhari sees attempts to manipulate vote 8:22am EDT Analysis & Opinion 4 Republican hopefuls in New Hampshire find tepid Tea Party turnout Why Congress should vote no on raising the debt ceiling Related Topics World » Related Video Nigeria votes to elect new president 9:25am EDT 1 / 7 Voters queue to cast their ballots at Daura, in Katsina state in northern Nigeria, April 16, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde By Nick Tattersall ABUJA | Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:13pm EDT ABUJA (Reuters) - Tens of millions of Nigerians voted on Saturday in the most credible presidential election for decades, with early results pointing to a close race between President Goodluck Jonathan and rival Muhammadu Buhari. From the tin-roofed shacks of the Niger Delta, where Jonathan cast his vote, to the dusty alleyways of Daura, the northern home village of ex-military ruler Buhari, voters came out en masse. "The politicians should know if they don't perform they are going to be voted out," said businessman Ahibuogwu Brian among the populous lagoon-side shanties of Makoko in the sprawling commercial hub of Lagos. "The electorate now know we have the power to chose our leaders." The polls pit front-runner Jonathan, the first head of state from the oil-producing Niger Delta, against Buhari, a northern Muslim with a reputation as a disciplinarian. Early results showed Jonathan had done well in much of predominantly Christian southern Nigeria, including areas such as Lagos where his ruling party had struggled in a parliamentary election a week ago. But first results from heavily Muslim northern states showed Buhari with a wide lead and a very high turnout which could help counterbalance his lack of support in the south. "Across the country it will be close," said former government minister Nasir el-Rufai, a Buhari supporter, at a vote counting center in Abuja. "My only fear is it will become a north-south issue if we see a situation where Buhari sweeps the north and Jonathan does well in the south. We may have to go to a run-off," he told Reuters. To win in the first round, a candidate needs a simple majority and a quarter of the vote in two thirds of the 36 states. There are more than 73 million registered voters and 120,000 polling stations. Final results could take days. IMPROVEMENT Election workers, party officials, observers and armed police crammed into a classroom of an Abuja school to try to collate results from 35 polling units. Heated arguments flared and dissipated, but observers said the system was working. "What we see appears to be logical and there is care being taken that what was counted out there is reflected in here," said former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark. 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