Ecstatic crowds engulfed Kano's streets as it became clear that Muham-madu Buhari, a former military strongman who ruled Nigeria in the 1980s, had led an opposition party to victory in a presidential contest for the first time in the country's history. Passengers piled on top of lorries waved the national flag as drivers honked their horns in northern Nigeria's biggest city. Jubilant drumbeating revellers shouted the name of the man back in the seat of power after an absence of three decades. "We will celebrate for seven days," said Aliyu Haruna Aliyu, a farmer, outside the Kano headquarters of Mr Buhari's All Progressives Congress. "We have won the most free and fair election ever to take place in Nigeria. This is a new Nigeria."
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