Nigeria’s opposition APC party has claimed victory for its presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari, but the country remained tense as it discovered the final results of the weekend’s elections. <br /><br /> Preliminary results on Tuesday showed Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress, some two million votes ahead of Goodluck Jonathan.<br /><br /> But the election was a tight one, splitting the country between its Muslim North and Catholic South. <br /><br /> In the evening, Jonathan and his ruling People’s Democratic Party acknowledged their defeat.<br /><br /> Buhari first came to power thirty years ago in a military coup. He said on Monday he would seek to better fight Boko Haram Islamist militants destabilising the country.<br /><br /> “With my background as a military man I think we have to quickly restore the morale of the Nigerian military and the reinforcement agencies by certainly getting weapons, retraining, and re-organisation. That is absolutely necessary,” Buhari said.<br /><br /> In Lagos, some shops remained closed amid fears the
