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 ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - A former chemistry professor hand-picked by President Olusegun Obasanjo won Nigeria's presidential election in a landslide Monday, a vote denounced as deeply flawed by international observers and the opposition.
Umaru Yar'Adua must now fight for credibility in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, where some 15,000 people have died since strict military rule ended in 1999.
Yar'Adua, a 56-year-old Muslim from the north of a country of 140 million people nearly equally split between northern Muslims and southern Christians, has spent most of his working life in academia, teaching chemistry at a university in his home state.
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