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Polling was supposed to have begun, but election officials were nowhere to be found, so one community on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital decided to start the election on their own Saturday morning.
Shortly after 8:00 am (0700 GMT) Teddy Oheje stood on a ledge at the White House polling station in the town of Maraba, Nasarawa state, writing numbers sequentially in blue ink on scraps of paper, distributing the tickets one-by-one to a large crowd of anxious voters.
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