1999 Nigerian presidential election
27 February 1999
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| Registered | 57,938,945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 52.26% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 27 February 1999. They were the first elections to be held since the 1993 military coup and were the first elections of the Fourth Nigerian Republic. A former military head of state from 1976 to 1979, Olusegun Obasanjo, was elected president. Supported by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he defeated Olu Falae who was backed by the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and All People's Party (APP). In 2025, Falae spoke up and claimed that "I won that election" instead of Obasanjo. He also claimed that his campaign didn't go to court as they were more concerned about the return to democracy after years of military rule.
Until 2023, this was the last election to not feature Muhammadu Buhari.