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<br>ABUJA, June 8 (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday elected former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu as its candidate to run for president in elections scheduled for February 2023.<br> <br>President Muhammadu Buhari steps down next year after leading Africa's most populous country and top oil exporter for the maximum eight years allowed by the constitution.<br> <br>Tinubu, 70, who was in charge of Nigeria's commercial capital from 1999 to 2007, defeated Buhari's deputy, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, in the APC primaries.  (Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Estelle Shirbon)<br>