Nigeria’s presidential election marked by long delays

An electoral worker counts the ballots at a polling station during the presidential elections in Agulu, Nigeria [Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP]

Counting is under way in Nigeria’s tightly contested presidential election, after a poll marked by long delays and gunfire at some voting stations.

The long delays and scattered violence in Africa’s most populous nation on Saturday, however, did not deter large crowds of Nigerians hoping for a reset after years of worsening violence and hardship under outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari.