Nigerians check voters' lists at a polling station in Kaduna, Nigeria, Saturday, February 16, 2019. Nigeria's electoral commission delayed the presidential election until Feb. 23, making the announcement a mere five hours before polls were set to open. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari leaves after attending Friday prayers in his hometown Daura in Katsina State, ahead of the country's presidential election, Nigeria on February 15, 2019. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)





A Nigerian salesman stands in the middle of the normally busy street outside the central market in Kaduna, Nigeria, Saturday February 16, 2019. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Two young girls walk past a polling station following the presidential election being delayed by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Yola, Nigeria, Saturday, February 16, 2019. A civic group monitoring Nigeria's now-delayed election says the last-minute decision to postpone the vote a week until Feb. 23 “has created needless tension and confusion in the country”. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Newspaper distributors take hot drinks from a roadside stall in the morning next to a newspaper stand in Kano, in northern Nigeria Saturday, February 16, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A customer, right, buys fruit from a street seller by the side of the road at a busy intersection near Nyanya, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Abuja, Nigeria Tuesday, February 12, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





People cross the roads near the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Yola, Nigeria, Friday, February 15, 2019. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Children joke around as they play football in the sandy courtyard of Badawa Girls School, which would have been used as a polling station, in Kano, northern Nigeria Saturday, February 16, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Local hunters pose with dane guns near a polling station following the presidential election being delayed by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Yola, Nigeria, Saturday, February 16, 2019. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Nigerians engage in heated but friendly arguments about the postponement of the election, over beers at a street-side bar in the predominantly-Christian neighborhood of Sabon Gari in Kano, northern Nigeria Saturday, February 16, 2019. Nigeria's top candidates on Saturday condemned the last-minute decision to delay the presidential election for a week until Feb. 23, blaming each other but appealing to Africa's largest democracy for calm. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





This picture taken on February 13, 2019, shows shoes and items lying on the ground in front of the main entrance of the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium where fifteen people were killed on February 12, 2019 in a stampede during an election campaign rally held by Nigerian President in Port Harcourt, Southern Nigeria. The deaths are the latest on the campaign trail before February 16 election, at which Buhari is seeking a second, four-year term of office. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





A woman with a large plastic bucket filled with drinks and food on her head passes by a wall covered with posters of presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the official opposition party, in Lagos on February 11, 2019. Nigerians will participate in the national elections on February 16 where current President Mohammadu Buhari is seeking re-election for the Nigerian ruling party All Prgressives Congress (APC). (Photo by Stefan Heunis/AFP Photo)





A Nigerian man pushs his wheelbarrow by the closed central market in Kaduna, Nigeria, Saturday, February 16, 2019. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Young Muslim boys wait for traditional Friday prayers to begin at a mosque near to the Emir's palace a day prior to the start of the elections, in Kano, northern Nigeria, Friday, February 15, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A family mourns the death of a man killed by suspected militants during an attack around Polo area of Maiduguri, Nigeria on February 16, 2019. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





The face of incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is seen on a campaign poster fixed to the pillars of a highway bridge near Nyanya, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Abuja, Nigeria Tuesday, February 12, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A Nigerian woman attends Friday prayers at the central mosque is security checked a day prior to the election, in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday February 15, 2019. Nigeria surged into the final day of campaigning ahead of Saturday's election, as President Muhammadu Buhari made one last pitch to stay in office while top challenger Atiku Abubakar shouted to supporters: “Oh my God! Let them go! Let them go”! (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A young boy scavenges for re-sellable items from garbage on the streets, runs past a sign showing incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, left, and local party official Mustapha Dankadai, right, in Kano, northern Nigeria Friday, February 15, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Children play football in the sandy courtyard of Badawa Girls School, on whose wall the initials of the opposition People's Democratic Party have been written, which would have been used as a polling station, in Kano, northern Nigeria, Saturday, February 16, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A manual laborer pulls a cart of hay as men drive past on a motorcycle, near the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Kano, northern Nigeria Thursday, February 14, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Nigerians play the board-game Ayoayo over beers at a street-side bar in the predominantly-Christian neighborhood of Sabon Gari in Kano, northern Nigeria Saturday, February 16, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Youth supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari cheer as they return from a rally of the ruling All Progressives Congress party, near the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Kano, northern Nigeria Thursday, February 14, 2019. Nigeria's main opposition party charged Thursday that the election commission has kept more than 1 million ghost voters on the national register, raising fears of vote rigging ahead of Saturday's presidential election. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Muslims make traditional Friday prayers at a mosque near to the Emir's palace in Kano, northern Nigeria Friday, February 15, 2019. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)